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woman of about 30, whow?s with Goldreich Z d Wolpe, told journalists: “ Weanything.” Primed not to

The woman, in a blue dressMUed ear/mn dark gIasses' was rr.1Iea into a ConeoJpspMinister’s room as soon as journalists approached her.

The refugee group also in­cludes their pilot and one other man who is believed tobe European.—Sapa-Reuter.

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The Star’s ..wn,,DAR ES SALAAM, Tuesday.

Goldreich and Wolpe arrived at Mbeya from Elisabethville at noon in a charter plane. There were two other passengers aboard. The fugitives are expected here this evening.

The twin-engined six-seater plane was accompanied from | Elisabethville to Mbeya by a nair-1 craft hired by an American tele­vision corporation.

Several African National Con­gress supporters, refugees of all races at present in Dar es Salaam, are on their way to the airport to greet Goldreich and Wolpe on their arrival.

THIRD MAN OF RIVONIA FREE

% 45 MINUTES* By DESMOND BLOW

l^EN N IS GOLDBERG, the Cape Town engineer who was arrested with Arthur Goldreich at Rivonia in July,

escaped from the Vereeniging Prison last Friday. He was free for only 45 minutes and has been transferred to

This was confirmed last night by Brigadier F. J. Coetzee, director of Prison Administration in Pre­toria. He said he did not know the details of the escape other than that Goldberg escaped from the exer6ise yard.

I understand that Goldberg pushed a wad of paper into his cell door to prevent the door from locking when he was shut in.

He escaped into the exercise yard and climbed a drainpipe to the roof of the prison. Another

■ prisoner saw him and gave the 1 alarm.

; CAUGHT / / V ALLEY5 Goldberg got away and a search

was started. He was captured 45 minutes later in a Vereeniging

Pretoria Prison.Derfus"'Goldberg, one of the 18

people detained by security pohcein the Rivonia raid of July who was at large in Vereernging on Friday, August 30, tor 40 minutes, is shortly to be charged in court. The charge will probably be one of escaping horn police cells in Vereeniging.

Goldberg was recaptured, cut and bleeding and with torn clothes, in a Vereeniging alley

^ChargeswUrbe preferred againstmanv of the 14 still held afterthe raid on Arthur Goldreich s

i IP.e . vw-vncA ns soon as security Rivonia house as• H1 police have finished sorting

through seized documents.

alley.His clothing was torn and he

was bloodstained from injuries received during his climb.

Goldberg was immediately trans­ferred to Pretoria Prison. His wife flew from Cape Town in an efforf to see him. Friends who had col­lected his washing had told her ofthe bloodstained clothing.

Mrs. Goldberg saw Colonel Klindt, head of the Security Branch on the Witwatersrand. He arranged for her to see her hus­band to satisfy herself he was well.

The authorities have not stopped him receiving food and clothing.

Goldberg is known to have lived in a cottage at the back of the home of Mr. Leon Kreel in Terrace Road, Mountain View, Johannes­burg, under the name of Williams at the time of his arrest at Rivonia.

Mr. Kreel was detained for 90 days.last Friday.

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1 JOLDREICH ESCAPE PLANE (! i l A DAR-ES-SALAAM. — During a Press con- |I ference ot Dar-es-Salaam Airport for Arthur || Goldreich and Harold Wolpe, an explosion occurred |1 near the hangar of the air charter company and || plane which brought the men from Bechuanaland. |

Police said five African youths playing on §=j airport ground found some tins, one of which ex- 1 ploded when hit with a knife. Four boys were | 1 injured, one- seriously, in a fire which followed

Police jare saying nothing about the possi ity |j § of sabotage.

Newsmun saw an African youth vnrh his | 1 hands, arms and chest covered with blood being | 1 lifted into an ambulance by police. The explosion || i near the hangar was not heard in the Press con- | | ference room because of aircraft noises.

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ELISABETHYTLLE.—Con­golese police on Monday night pounced on “ an un­identified South African” who, they claimed, was look­ing for the two fugitives, Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe, who passed through Elisabethville on their way to Dar-es-Salaam.

The police said they arrested him as a suspected South African Government agent after he had failed to identify the Marshall Square escapers when taken to a hotel dining-room where Gold­reich and Wolpe were eating.

Allegations that the man, a 34- year-old Belgian, Ives Monthulet, was a Government agent were strongly denied last night by the Commissioner of Police, Lieuten­ant-General J. M. Keevy, and the Minister of Justice, Mr. Vorster, who said the report was “a pack of lies.”

SORRY-LOOKUVGA sorry-looking Monthulet was

yesterday introduced to newsmen as the arrested man. His bruised and swollen face spoke of an un­comfortable night.

He said that on arrival in Elisabethville on Monday night, he stepped off the train and asked police for political asylum from South African political per­secution.

He also claimed that he was a personal friend of the two escapers and had arranged for

their flight from Bechuanaland. Police said they took Monthulet to a restaurant where Goldreich and Wolpe were dining, but ne failed to recognise either of them. Now they are holding mm as an illegal immigrant and “suspected member of the South African Government.”

Fattish, and rather pathetic looking, Monthulet told reporters this morning that the police had made a "ghastly mistake.”

"I am fighting for the 92,000 Black and White p o l i t i c a l prisoners in South Africa. Things are getting worse there,” he said in broken English.

REAL PEACEHe added: "I was in Johannes­

burg but came here for real peace.” Monthulet said he had lived in the Congo until in­dependence in 1960 and left during the general exodus of the Belgians soon after.

Congolese officials took strict security measures to protect Goldreich and Wolpe when they left by light aircraft at 7.15 a.m. yesterday.

After they had arrived at Dar-es-Salaam Goldreich told reporters that their escape from South Africa could not have been achieved alone, and paid tribute to those who had helped.

“ If our escape is a victory at all, it is a victory for the organisation in South Africa as a national liberation movement in the country.”

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W olpe phones Rand | from Tanganyika

U A R O LD WOLPE spoke to liis sister-in-law, burg today by radio telephone from

Mrs. Barbara Kantor, in Johannes* Dar es Salaam.

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about tlie ultimate success of our adventure.”This is the first contact the

escapers from Marshall Square have had with home-since several days before their secret flight from Francistown.

Arthur Goldreich sent a message to Mrs. Kantor, wife of the de­tained attorney, Mr. James Kan­tor, to tell his family in Johan­nesburg that he was safe and well.

'Harold was worried about his wife, with whom he has lost con­tact, and about my husband,” said Mrs. Kantor.

Wolpe is writing to Johannes­burg to clarify certain legal matters in the offices where he

| worked with his brother-in-law 1 as an attorney.

ONE OF LARGESTMeanwhile, a lawyer who is

helping to run Mr. Kan tor’s office —one of the largest attorney’s practices in Johannesburg — has been allowed to see Mr. Kantor on occasions at Marshall Square to discuss legal matters.

WOLPE’S „„WIFE OFF T t O ‘NEW £ LIFE’ IN

LONDONStaff Reporter

1\TRS. ANNE MARIE WOLPE, wife of Harold Wolpe, left

South Africa yesterday for Eng­land. Before her sudden flight from Johannesburg, she told me: j “ I am going to make a new life and a new home for myself and my children.” .

Mrs. Wolpe had to get special security police clearance for her departure and was told that it had been granted only 24 hours

Mrs. Kantor has also allowed to see her husband discuss family finances.

In Dar es Salaam, Goldreich said yesterday that he and Wolpe would remain in Tanganyika “ for a few days’ holiday"—but he re­fused to discuss their future plans, reports The Star’s Africa News Service.

He said, however, that they would discuss what to do next with “ friends in Dar es Salaam.”

Clean-shaven and neatly dressed, the two men were welcomed by a Zulu-chanting crowd ot fellow South African fugitives when they landed by charter plane.

Questioned at a Press confer­ence on his beliefs, Goldreich said that he was “ associated with the idea of liberty for the African people."

NO COMMENTAsked whether he was a Com­

munist, he said: ” I would say that I have no comment."

Goldreich confirmed that the charter was arranged by the Lusaka newspaper, the "African Mail." and said that this paper had the support of Kenneth Kaunda.

He added: “ Many other people played a part in our escape, in­cluding Mr. Kaunda and the Con­golese and Tanganyika Govern­ments.”

“ VICTORY "Goldreich added: " If our

escape is a victory at all, it is A victory for the organization in South Africa known as the ‘National Liberation Movement’ .” The A.N.C. was the leading orga­nization in the movement, he said.

He declined to reveal particulars of their movements before reach­ing Francistown. They had both felt “anxious and nervous” before actually escaping from Johannes­burg. "But once we actually got away we never had any doubts

Asked about Dr. Kenneth Abrahams, who was at one time believed to be aboard the same escape plane, Goldreich said there was no room for him aboard the tiny craft.

'His need to get away was not immediate. We feel Abrahams is safe in Francistown,” he said.

The "attract j’ ’2 European brunette” reporter with Goldreich at ElizabethviUe was not aboard the plane

Asked about reports about the woman whom Goldreich had referred to as "my wife,” Gold­reich said: "My wife is in jail in South Africa."

He admitted, with a laugh, that lie had told a reporter at Eliza- bethville that the woman was nis wife, “because he was fishing.”

He declined to say who the woman was

CLOSETEDBefore tile Press conference,

both men were closeted together with A.N.C. top executives in a private conference while jubilant Africans sang and cheered out­side.

African women displayed ban­ners with slogans including "Your escape is a blow to Nazi Vorster” and “ANC underground is invincible.”

C» Ij t*before she left.

An advocate saw Col. Klindt, head of the Security Branch in Johannesburg, on her behalf on Tuesday. He presented a medical certificate saying that Mrs. Wolpe was in a serious state of nervous tension and depression and that, if forced to remain, her condition would deteriorate.

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DAR ES SALAAM. Tuesday.— j'South African fugitives, Moosa 1 | Moola and Abdulhai Jassat are I expected to travel to Dar es Salaam i by road from the Southern Tan- | ganyika border town of Mbeya ; where they arrived by charter air- I craft from Francistown.

The South African National Con­gress representative in Tanganyika, James Hadebe, said he had been in touch with them on the tele­phone and expected them in Dar es Salaam in a day or two.

Moola and Jassat escaped from Marshall Square, Johannesburg, with Goldreich and Wolpe who are already in Dar es Salaam.

Goldreich aid use o Kreei cottage,% say police

^ CRIME REPORTEROOLICE say they have proof that Arthur Goldreich

used the garden fottage of Mr. Leon Kreel’s Johan­nesburg house, but will need more time to establish whether he hi.I there while on the run after his escape from Marshall Square with three others.

Police say they have found clothes in the cottage belonging to Goldreich.

The clothes — believed to be a pair of shoes and a coat — were confiscated after the detention of| Mr. Kreei, a Johannesburg chemist. It is understood that police also have other evidence that Goldreich visited the cottage, i

Mr. Kreel’s wife, Mrs. Maureen! | Kreei, who was detained on Mon­day, said before her detention that during the time Goldreich and Wolpe were free, she had seen no­body in the cottage.

ARRESTEDShe said police told her that a

man who had stayed in the cottage j under the name of Williams after! .another man had rented it, was in fact Dennis Goldberg who was arrested at Rivonia with Gold­reich and 15 others.

On Wednesday police detained Mr. Ralph Sepel, Mrs. Kreel’s 35- year-old brother-in-law. Mrs. Sepel told the "Rand Daily Mail" that she and her husband had; lived opposite the Goldreich’s for some time.

Her husband, a lawyer’s cleric, had done legal work for Gold­reich concerning the property in Rivonia.

All are being held for 90 day’s on suspicion of harbouring Gold­reich and Wolpe.

0 Wolpe — resting in Dar- es-Salaam with Goldreich— is delighted by news of his wife’s flight from South Africa. “That’s great news,” he said from the office of the African National Congress.

aided escapers^O LD R EIC H , WOLPE and their confederates had plotted a “ violent

and hellish revolution, planned on a military basis.” The words are >om of l)i I erey \ utar, Deputy Attorney-General, and were spoken

net ore a Johannesburg magistrate today.. before the court was a 19-year-old constable, Johannes Arnoldus Greeff

n p v , 'v,th bnbery and with assisting four men to escape from Marshall Square, t U ,dr Sdl 1 le policeman had fallen " t o the evil machinations of two

Such is the baseless character of these renegades, as the evidence Will reveal, that they even double-crossed the man who helped them to escape,” lie added.

Goldreich, Wolpe, Moosa Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat, all 90-day detainees, escaped from Marshall Square in the early hours of August 11 and all are now in Tan­ganyika.

Among the 23 witnesses to be called at the trial is Goldreich’s sister, Doreen Arenstein, who, according to the charge sheet, gave Greeff R100 on August 8.

The charge sheet alleges that Greeff was promised R4000— which he never got—to help the four men escape.

The two main charges of bribery and assisting prisoners to escape have alternatives of corruption and defeating the ends of justice.. I Greeff pleaded not guilty to all. j

Rivonia recalledAlter hearing one witness

(Det.-Sgt. J. F. Scholtz, who handed in a plan oi the Marshall j Square cells), the magistrate, Mr. D- H. J. Coetzee, adjourned for an inspection in loco.

At Marshall Square newspaper­men .were barred from going farther than the charge office.

Goldreich was among those de­tained after a raid on a home in Rivonia, Johannesburg on July 11- Dr. Yutar is in charge of the prosecutions in all the cases which will arise out of the Rivonia raid.

Dr. Yutar, in his address to the Court, said that attempts to sub­vert Greeff started even before Goldreich was brought to Marshall Square. M6olla, who was one of the first people de­tained under the 90-day clause, is alleged to have given Greeff a suit, a tie and a pair of shoes I on June 17. 1

During July, said the pro­secutor, Greeff borrowed a car from another policeman. Either j Greeff, or another policeman, j

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end of his address) said: I “It was obvious that Gold- j reich, Wolpe and their con- i federates, after exploiting the poverty of Greeff, which was something in violent

conflict with their political beliefs and against which they had pledged to fight, double-crossed Greeff, and left him without prisoners, without money—and without freedom.”

At this point Greeff, who so far throughout the pro­ceedings had smiled bum into laughter.

overturned the car. The owner was required by the insurers to pay the first R90 of the cost of repairs, and he demanded the money from Greeff.

Greeff was unable to pay and on August 6 tried to borrow R90 from a 90-day detainee, Laloo Chiba. Chiba could not give him the money . . . but gave him some advice.

” The upshot was that the very next day Greeff, whu was on night duty at Marshall Square as cell warder, allowed Goldreich to use the telephone in his (Greeff’s) office,” said the prosecutor.

Payment made" Goldreich spoke to a relative,

a professional man, as well as his sister, and arranged with them that an amount of R100 in cash be given Greeff, who would cal! round for it next day.

“ Payment was duly made on August 8 and Greeff handed it over to his colleague the same day

“ The coup de grace in this softening-up process came im­mediately after Goldreich had arranged for Greeff to be paid

R100. The evidence will show that Greeff was promised a further R4000 if he would allow the four men—Goldreich was not con­cerned about his wife, who was also detained at Marshall Square —to escape.

“ Greeff agreed and plans were made accordingly. On Saturday afternoon, August 10—that is, just prior to the escape that same night—Greeff boasted to another colleague that he proposed to buy a large American car.

“ When his colleagues expressed disbelief, because of the poor financial position of Greeff, Greeff confirmed his intention with the words: ‘ Money is not a question; you will yet see.’

“ Arranged escape”“ That very same night Greeff

arranged for the escape of Gold­reich, Wolpe and the two others, simulating that he had gone into Gotdreich’s cell to investigate a matter, was knocked on the head and rendered unconscious, *;ed up and deprived of his k cc\- tinued Dr. Yutar. '

“ When lie regain . , , ous-ness, Greeff said, 4 r d to free himself am; r ,.c alarm.

“ All this the nr .'price will show I to be cotn-ii fi l)c false and de- ! void of all trOBh.

“ All M.ut happened was that' Greeff--; ire Goldreich the keys of the :ils and the exit doors to I Mai snail Square, and, thereafter, I knocked himself on the head with a piece of iron inflicting a small injury. Expert medical evidence will show that the injury was utterly slight and would not have caused unconsciousness.”

Called for recordsLater that morning Greeff, in

accordance with instructions he had received from the men, called upon a man whom he thought was to pay him the R4000 he had been promised, said Dr. Yutar.

“ Greeff had been told to ask for a parcel of records," the prose­cutor went on. “But the party in question professed to know nothing whatsoever about it •

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suit, a ii£ p'ur of black shoes and a piece' « eht iron, about lOin. long in ,c;i ;,jnch wide, which was ta, MarshallSquare when thLfc.?t' • ipected

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Scholtz said Moolla h a T b e l^ in Cell 11 and Jassat m

CWarrant Officer C. A_ Labu- schagne said that he was assistantstation commander t " i Square until August, 2 0 He gave description of Mar! pf uthp exer- 1 the cells, t h e : « serent doors- cise yards and thenf f hef ™Us and Duplicate keys rof the ceus ^

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B t o u t u ld m o w n then if J r°e wir e‘ three bits of s t r i n g

those before the court at Marshall I Square?—Yes. Nowhere in Mar­shall Square were there bits of string like these

Warrant Officer Labuschagne said that in Goldreich’s cell a pair of broken glasses, three bits of string and a short length of iron were found.

Goldreich used two pairs of glasses, one for reading and the other pair he normally wore. Thebroken pair was his readingglasses.

STORY OF CARThe iron, which Greeff is

alleged to have used to knock himself on the head, was similar to an iron which had disappeared about six weeks before from a latrine, said the witness.

Cross-examined by Mr. Fleis- chack, Warrant Officer Labus­chagne said that there were stand­ing orders to have cell inspec­tions every hour during the night. These were not done at Marshall Square because there was a perm­anent cell warder. Inspections were, however, frequently held during the night.

Const. D. E. Erasmus, a learner detective, told the court he had a car. In July, Greeff borrowed his car through a friend.

Constable Erasmus said that the next morning he heard that the car had been overturned. It was badly damaged. His car was in­sured. but he had to pay the first R90 of repairs himself.

He told Greeff and a constable named Van Wyk that they had been responsible for the accident and he expected them to pay the R90. Both said they would look for the money, and Greeff told him he would borrow from colleagues.

Constable Erasmus said Greeff paid the R90 on August 8. He handed over the money in cash, in RIO notes. Greeff told him he had borrowed the money.

Mr. Fleischack had no questions.

“ MONEY—NO QUESTION”Const. H. S. de Wet said he

sometimes went to Greeff’s room at the barracks to listen to his long- playing records. On August 10 lie was working on his car. He was lying under the car fixing a silencer when Greeff came up, and they got talking.

Greeff then asked him where he could buy a Studebaker Lark. Constable De Wet asked Greeff how much deposit he had for such an expensive car. Greeff replied: “Oh, money is not the question."

He told Greeff he was talking nonsense because he still had to pay Constable Erasmus R90. Greeff said: “Don't worry, you will see."

Cross-examined he agreed that Greeff had been talking like a boaster.

INDIAN’S STORYMr. Laloo Chiba, an Indian, said

he was detained on May 21 under the 90-da.v Act. He was kept at Marshall Square in a cell upstairs. He got to know Greeff as the cell warder.

Chiba said he was released on August 7—before the 90 days were up.

The night before his release, Greeff visited him and told him he had had an accident, and needed R100. He asked for a loan, but Chiba said he could not.

On August 10 he telephoned I Marshall Square and asked to be put through to Greeff. Greeff said he had telephoned him earlier at his home in connection with “ the records.” Chiba said that on the Sunday he heard about the Gold­reich escape.

There was then a message from Warrant Officer Labuschagne to come and see him.

Dr. Yutar: Did anybody make arrangements for you to pay over R4000 to Greeff?—No.

GOLDREICH’S SISTERMrs. Doreen Arenstein, Gold­

reich’s sister, was the next witness. She said that on August 7 she and her husband visited friends. Just before they left there was a telephone call for her husband.

She was concerned about her children because it was late, and she followed her husband to the telephone. Mrs. Arenstein heard her husband mention her brother’s name.

Her husband said " Here is Doreen.” Then she took the tele­phone and spoke to her brother at Marshall Square.

Mrs. Arenstein said they went home and on the way her husband made a report to her.

The next day, at her husband's offices, she received a visitor. It was Greeff. who said he was in trouble.

GAVE HIM ENVELOPEMrs. Arenstein said she gave

him an envelope containing rUOO She had been expecting ureeif. The constable put the envelope in his pocket. He did not say what his trouble was. He told her he had been very nice to her brother and sister-in-law.

Greeff told her he had allowed Goldreich and his wife to see one another, and he asked her i; she wanted to see her brother.

Cross-examined Mrs. Arenstein said that as far'as she was con­cerned the R100 could have he-m a loan to Greeff.

HIS NAME CALLEDConst. Thomas Matsapa, who

was on duty with Greeff, said that about 1.30 a.m., while he was in the kitchen he heard somebody call his name repeatedly.

Later Greeff told him that Goldreich, Wolpe, Moolla and Jassat had escaped.

"He said he went to Goldreich’s cell, looked through the opening and saw nobody inside," said the witness. He opened the door and entered. As he walked in Gold­reich hit him on the head with a piece of iron.

"Greeff said he fell. Goldreich tied his hands and took the keys. Greefi said Goldreich’s spectacles had been on a table. He knocked them to the floor and used a broken piece of the glass to cut the string on his wrists.”

Mr Vorster: Did you see any injuries on Greeff? — No.

Did you see him plainly? — Yes.How long were you with him in

the office while he told his story? — Eight or 10 minutes.

(Procccdinu)I3r. P. Yutar, S.A., with him Mr. T. B. Vorster and Mr J. J M. Naude, of the office of the Senior Public Prosecutor, Johannesburg appeared for the State: Mr. A. Fleischack was for Grcelf_____

HE DOUBTED ESCAPE?OON a f t e r Goldreich,

Wolpe and two othershad escaped from Marshall Square, Lieutenant F. J. Burger, of the South Afri­can Police, became suspicious about the circumstances in which they had got away.He said in the Johannesburg

Regional Court yesterday that his suspicions were aroused when Constable Johannes Arnoldus Greeff reported that he had been struck on the head by Goldreich. He had difficulty in finding an injury on the back of Greeff’s head.

Greeff, 19, is appearing on charges of bribery and assisting four men to escape from Marshall Square. . . _ „

I sent him (Greeff) to a doctor, said Lieutenant Burger. “The doctor's opinion was that the in­juries could not have caused him to lose consciousness. I then sent him to a specialist who confirmed what the doctor had said.

‘‘This all took place before 6.30 a.m. — a few hours after Gold­reich and his companions had escaped.”

Not in bedLieutenant Burger said .that

Greeff had told him he had visited the cells at about 1.30 aJn‘ **S had looked through the ‘ spy hole in Goldreich’s cell door but h was not in bed.

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COURT REPORTER“ Greeff said he had been hit

on the head. I saw no injuries. His clothes were not soiled or dis­arranged.”

Under cross-examination, Mr. Mashapa said that until Gold­reich’s escape there had been no padlocks on any of the cells. The following day padlocks were placed on all cells.

Warrant-Officer C. A. Labus- chagne, who was stationed at Mar­shall Square until August 20, said that the cell-warder carried two keys with him with which he could open all doors in the men’s section.

In the four years he was sta­tioned at Marshall Square he had never seen pieces of thin rope there such as those before the court.

SERGEANT J. J. KARPAKES

fab A1UU Ail MCU, . , , .__He also noticed that the latrine door leading off Goldreich s cell was in darkness.

Greeff had told him he had opened the cell door and gone in. As he was entering the latrine, Goldreich attacked him with a piece of iron.

He was struck on the head and lost consciousness. When he came to he found his hands tied behind him. He noticed Goldreich’s spec­tacles on the table and edged to­wards them.

Greeff,” said Sergeant Karpakes.There were four small keys and

one large master key which opened all the cells.”

An African, Mr. Andrew Mashapa, said he was detained for 90 days in a cell on the first floor at Marshall Square. During his detention his cell was never ever locked. It was usually latched from the outside, but sometimes the latch was not fastened.

Cut ropeGreeff said he smashed the

spectacles and used the broken glass to cut the rope.

Lieutenant Burger said that when Greeff first made this report to him he was not suspicious.

“ But there was a slight swell ing on the back of his head and another on his left temple, he said. « .,Sergeant J. J- Karpakes said he was in control of the charge office at Marshall Square at the time of the escape.

He visited all the cells between 12.45 and 1 o ’clock on the morn­ing of the escape.

Wolpe and Goldreich were asleep“ I returned to the charge office and locked the door, leaving Greeff in the cells behind.

Found keys“About 40 minutes later he re

ported to me that the four men had escaped. We raced downstairs and out into the street, but could not see anyone.”

Sergeant Karpakes said he found keys at the door leading from the exercise yard out through the Car park into the street.

“They were the keys normally kept in a drawer in the charge office, not the keys carried by

Heard shoutsOn August 11, at about 1 a.m.,

he heard banging and kicking against a cell door and someone shouting a name that could have been his or that of the African constable on duty.

“I went to my cell door to look out through the spy hole. As I touched the door it opened,” he said.

“I went into the corridor and saw that both iron gates in the corridor, which were usually locked, were standing open. I went through the one gate to the sound of the banging.

“I found it came from cell num­ber 14 and heard someone shouting ‘Open the door.’ I turned the han­dle and unlatched it. Constable Greeff came out.

“I asked him what the matter was. He swore at me and ran past. I did not see whether his hands were tied. He ran down the steps to the east side.

‘I then saw Constable Matsabe. He asked me whether I was mak­ing the noise and I told him what had happened.”

He said that Constable Matsabe then locked him in his cell.

“About eight minutes later Greeff and Constable Matsabe came into my cell. They said: ‘We are in trouble.’

“ They told me that two Euro­peans and two Indians had escaped. ________

Security systemWarrant-Officer Labuschagne

said the door to the main cell was always kept locked. A door at the far end of the corridor which led to the exercise yard also was kept locked.

There was an iron gate in the corridor separating the cells of Goldreich and Wolpe from those of the two Indians.

The cells could not be opened from the inside if the outside latch was on, even if they were not locked. He said the exercise yard through which the men escaped was completely enclosed by walls. The top was covered with wire mesh.

Constable D. E. Erasmus, a learner detective, said that in July Greeff borrowed his car.

Next day he learnt that the car had been overturned. It was insured but he had to pay the first R90 of any claim.

He told Greeff and a Constable Van Wyk, who was with Greeff at the time of the accident, that they would have to pay him the R90. Greeff told him he would try to find the money.

Paid in cashOn August 8 he gave him the

money.“He paid the R90 In cash in

R10 notes,” said Constable Erasmus. “He told me he had borrowed it.”

Constable H. S. de Wet said that on August 10, while he was working on his car, Greeff ap­proached him and asked him where he could buy a Studebaker Lark, an expensive car which cost R2.200 or R2.600.

“ I asked him what deposit he had,” said Constable De Wet. "He replied that money was not a question. He told me the money was with his parents and he could f e t c h it from Rustenburg within an hour.

“I told him not to talk non sense. He replied ‘Don’t worry— you will see.' ”

A former detainee, Mr. Laloo Chiba, said that he was detained on May 21 under the 90-day law.

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ie was released on August 7, >efore the 90 days were up.

On the night before his release jreeff had visited him. He told lim he had had an accident and leeded R100. He asked if Mr. thiba could lend him the money.

“ I told him I didn’t have it and hat he should try someone else,”

Phone call"The next day after my release

le telephoned me at home and igain asked if I could help him. I laid X could not.

“On August 9 ,1 went to Rusten- aurg to visit my brother and re­turned in the evening when a report was made to me.

"I telephoned Greeff. He said he had arranged to get the R100 but said he had come to see me in connection with the records. I told him I did not understand him.” said Mr. Chiba.

Mr. Chiba said he knew nothing about records, nor had anyone made arrangements with him to pay Greeff R4.000.

He said he knew the two Indians, Moolla and Jassat, who had escaped, but did not know Goldreich and Wolpe.

In troubleDoreen Arenstein, Goldreich’s

sister and wife o f a profes­sional man, said that Goldreich had telephoned her husband from Marshall Square four days before his escape, and had made arrange­ments for him to give a police­man R100.

" I spoke to my brother. He was speaking from Marshall Square, Where he was being de­tained,” said Mrs. Arenstein.

“ He said he had told my hus­band what he had to say. He asked how his children were, and then said he would have to go.

“ Next day I went to my hus­

band’s rooms. In the afternoon Constable Greeff called. He was dressed in plain clothes.

“ My husband was not avail­able. He (Greeff) asked whether I knew about him. I told him I did. He said he was In trouble.

“ He told me he allowed my brother and his wife to see one another occasionally, and said that I could come to Marshall Square to see them on Sunday at 9.30 p.m. if I wished,” she went on.

“ I took him aside and gave him an envelope. It contained R100 in RIO notes.”

Possible loanCross-examined by Mr. A.

Fleischack (for Greeff), Mrs. Arenstein said she did not know what the money was for. It could have been a loan to Greeff as far as she was concerned.

In his opening address, Dr. Percy Yutar, Deputy Attorney- General of the Transvaal, said that Greeff was a young police­man who fell to the evil machina­tions of two traitors, Goldreich and Wolpe,- and others who plotted a “violent and hellish revolution in this country planned on a military basis.

‘Renegades’“And such is the baseless

character of these renegades, as the evidence will reveal, that they even double-crossed the police­man who helped them to escape from Marshall Square.”

Dr. Yutar said the process of “softening up” Greeff had begun some time before. Another of the four escapers, Moosa Moolla, had arranged for Greeff to receive a pair of shoes, a suit and a tie.

“The coup de grace in this ‘softening up’ process came im­mediately after Goldreich had ar­ranged for Greeff to be paid R100, He was promised a further R4.000 if he would allow the four of them, Goldreich, Wolpe, Moolla and Jassat, to escape.”

After their escape he was to call on a certain person and ask for a parcel of records. However, the person in question said he knew nothing about it.

“ It was obvious that Goldreich and Wolpe and their confederates, after exploiting the poverty .of Greeff, which was something of a violent conflict with their politi­cal beliefs and against which they had pledged to fight, double- crossed him and left him without prisoners, without money and with­out freedom.”

Greeff appeared in court in a grey sports jacket, blue flannels and open-neck shirt.

He smiled several times during the evidence but his hands kept fidgeting.

After a policeman had given evidence for the State, he winked at Greeff as he left the box. Dur­ing adjournments several police­men spoke to Greeff and gave him the thumbs-up sign.

Among the exhibits in court were a piece of iron from a closet cistern, a pair of broken spectacles and a piece of thin rope.

The hearing was adjourned un­til today.The Deputy Attorney-General for the Transvaal, Dr. Percy Yutar, assisted by Mr. T. B Voreter and Mr. J. J. M. Naude, appeared for the State. Mr. A.. Fleischack appeared for Greeff. Mr. D , H. I . Coetree was on the bench. _____

<,# Notice of Xappeal by ^ Greeff

Notice of appeal against the: severity of his six-year sentence— j three years on each charge of . bribery and assisting prisoners to. escape—was made today by Johannes Arnoldus Greeff.

The appeal was handed to the clerk of the Criminal Court by Greeff’s attorney, Mr. A. Flei­schack.

In the Johannesburg Regional Court yesterday Greeff was con­victed of bribery and assisting Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, Moosa Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat to escape from Marshall Square, where he was a cell guard, on August 11.

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Others can step ^n, W o! pc tells % conferenceAROLD WOLPE ,„ld a P „ !s „ „ r « i J l S l Uf | , — - --------hi launuon ioaavtlier,- was a number of people who could step into the

shoes of those arrested by the Sooth African Government ami carrx on tile struggle.

A scandal, says Mrs. Castle

He and Arthur Goldreich, two I of the men who recently escaped from the Marshall Square cells,

Johannesburg, were at a Press conference called by Mrs. Barbara Castle, president of the Anti­apartheid Movement, reports Sapa-Reuter.

Wolpe said they themselves had been associated with the National Liberation Movement, but they were not the leaders of it. They declined to say to what organiza­tions or political parties they had belonged.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENTDescribing his detention, he said

he was kept in solitary confinement and allowed half an hour a day out of his cell in a courtyard.

He was allowed to see nobody, nor was he allowed to have books other than the Bible, or writing material or cigarettes

But he added: “ There was no attempt to browbeat me or use any physical violence in any way. The police were meticulous in their con­duct towards us.”

He went on: "Although I was in custody for three weeks, I think that such solitary confinement is probably the worst kind of torture one can face. One is anguished, bored and time is endless.

TIME PASS“There is no way to make the

time pass. In my view the State is obviously trying to rely on this sort of mental torture to break the resistance of those opposed to apartheid.”

Wolpe said he thought the object of this sort of pressure was in­tended to get people to talk and so implicate themselves or others in their organizations.

The two men arrived in London by air from Tanganyika yesterday, having escaped from South Africa to Swaziland and then to Bechu- analand.

They declined to give any details of their escape or to say with

whom they were associated, ex­plaining that if they did so, others might be implicated.

Wolpe said it was typical of South African Government propa­ganda to say that Africans could i not lead, but in fact the African National Congress had been strug­gling against apartheid and segre­gation since 1912.

LONDON, Tuesday. — Mrs. Bar­bara Castle, Labour M.P., said to­day it was a scandal that there

| should have been any doubt that political asylum should be given to Arthur Goldreich and Harold Woipe.

She was addressing a Press con­ference at the House of Commons attended by the two fugitives con­cerned.

Mrs. Castle said permission had ' eventually been granted for them to stay two months.

“ We shall raise with the Home Office the whole question of their future,” she added.

It was announced at the con­ference that e special anti­apartheid month would be launched on November 3 with a march to Trafalgar Square.

Marchers would carry banners demanding an arms embargo on South Africa.

Goldreich referred to a descrip­tion of himself and Wolpe as the > “ biggest fish in the liberation t movement in South Africa.” ;

‘ There are many, many fish in . South Africa,” he said. “ It is always the tendency to describe those who get away as the big fish,” he commented

Wolpe said: “ The arrest of certain people has by no means destroyed the liberation move­ment."—Sapa-Reuter.

LONDON. — Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe arrived at Lon­don Airport yesterday from Dar- es-Salaam.

A spokesman for the anti­apartheid movement said that on arrival the two men were auto­matically issued with deportation

! orders. But through the efforts of I Mrs. Barbara Castle, Labour M.P and a group of other M.F.s who took the matter up with the Home Secretary, the decision was re­versed and the men were allowed into the country.

Also on board the plane was Mr. Vivian Ezra.

Among those present...

LONDON, Tuesday. — Among those present at the Press confer­ence, held in a basement interview

j toom of the House of Commons, were Mrs. Wolpe and several others who have fled from South

I Africa, including Leon Levy, Joe Siovo, Brian Bunting, Wolf Kodesh and Oliver Tambo, deputy-presi-

j dent of the African National Con- ! gress, Yussuf Dadoo. ex-president of the India Congress, and Nana Mahomo of the Pan-Africanist

| Congress.—Sapa-Reuter.

Ail three men said they had j no immediate plans, j The authorities gave them per­

mission to stay in Britain for two months.

They had been in Tanganyika i since their flight from South Africa I by way of Swaziland and Bechu-

analand several weeks ago.

WITH FRIENDSThey are thought to be staying

with friends in London.They will attend a Press con­

ference today in a House of Com­mons committee room booked by Mrs. Barbara Castle.

Mrs. Castle will preside at the conference, organised by the anti­apartheid movement, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hodgson, who are due in London from Bechuanaland, may also be present.—SAPA-a .p ’

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or specific nformationH#3 ■ ioldreich

NDON. — Arthur Goldreich; nd Harold Wolpe, two of thej ten who recently escaped •om Marshall Square cells, old a Press conference in Lon-on yesterday that their de- ;ntion was “a psychological orture” although their rilers had behaved “meticu-l ously” towards them.Lpe, describing his detention i a Press conference called j Y Mrs. Barbara Castle, presi- »nt of the anti-apartheid lovement, said he was kept in olitary confinement and al- owed half an hour a day out f his cell In a courtyard.

TERRORISTSdreich said that the South :rican Government seemed to x trying to create an atmos- lere which would deny people accused of the sympathy of

e rest of the world, t was why there had been ■responsible statements” that

cney headed a terrorist organisa­tion which was preparing sabo­tage and subversion.

Goldreich said that during his month in detention he had not been asked for specific in­formation. The security police had visited him and merely asked him to tell them what he knew.

NEW DRIVEMrs. Castle announced plans for a

new drive to beat South Africa’s racial laws.

An anti-apartheid month would be launched in November with a march of thousands through London. The British Govern­ment would also be called upon to grant asylum to all political refugees and to demand the re­lease of prisoners in South Africa.

The movement would also appeal for funds to send a representa­tive to the Baden-Baden Olym­pic Games meeting—in place of the shot Dennis Brutus—in an attempt to have South Africa banned on the ground of her racial laws.

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MEV. GOLDREICH GIS1 VRYGELAAT

MEV. HAZEL ANNE GOLDREICH, eggenote van A r­thur Goldreich wat in Augustus uit Suid-Afrika

ontsnap het en hom tans in lin d en bevind, is gistermid- dag om 5.30 uit die polisieselle by Marshallplein, Johan­nesburg, losgelaat.

Mev G old reich , n e t jie s g e k l e e | b w itek a n t d ie g e b o u w a a r sy *<?- in n iiou slu iten d e d o n k er r o k cn \dert IS Julie a a n g eh o u »s, h et s y met h are w a t lo s o o r h aar k o p \ na ’n motor gestdp. g e k a m w a s , h et g lim U tgg en d uit I Mev. _ Goldreich is y y & eIaa M a rsh a llp lein g e s ta p en is buite j presies n niaand voor haar 34 op d ie sy p a a d iie d ea r fa m il ie le d e verjaardag — sy verjaar op Guj o n tm o e t . Arn s le g s '« P °a r minute \ Fawkesdag. , .___________ ____________________ - Haar vrylatmg gister het as

! ‘n volslae verrassing gekom Vir ; haar familie en vriende. Die ver- j wagting was dat sv waarskynlik | volgende week in die hof soil ver- | skyn seam met die ander wat op I Hie Goldreich-iandgoed op Rivo-

nia in hegtenis geneem is.In ’n onlnngse underhand

met Daghreek wat in Marshall- plein se poiisieselie gevoer is, iiet mev. Goldreich gese dat sy

’ en die ander gevangenes, wat kragtens die 90-dae klousule van die Begswysigingsivet aan- gehnu word, baie goed deur die polisie behandel word. Sy het slegs die Bybel gehad om te lees maar daarnit kon sy geen genot of inspirasie put nie.Haar twee kindertjies is sedert

haar inhegtenisname deur haar ! skoonsuster in Johannesburg ver- j sorg.

In Pretoria wou lt.-kol. H. J. van den Bergh, hoof van die Vei- j ligheidsafdeling van die S.A. Poli- j sie, gisteraand geen kommentaar oor haar vrylating lewer nie.

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I Sunday Express ReporterT„ wa® .n0t definite that Mrs

theH M61 GoIdreich, wife ofA r t h n r ^ m 11 ®quare escaper Arthur Goidremh, would testifyhi athL nal o f -11 men arrested in a police raid on her Rivonia home said Dr. Percy Vutargputy-Attorney-Generayi, yester-

Dr. Yutar heads the prosecu- tl° n ln the anti-sabotage caseCourt Pretted in the Supreme Court, Pretoria, last week„ adm|tted that Mrs. Gold­reich called on him at his specialoPtheins J he ? Tu yS’ head9uarters hi ue. Spec,f '1 Branch. Asked if

.made a deal with MrsS l v re‘ l h he replied emPhati- Cai j ’ j^ j^ ave r^atte no deal.”_tie did not discuss with Mrs

Goldreich whether or not sinhVn°Hld , e-ttify at the trial. Sh, had called on him to discuss hei own position.

Yesterday Colonel P. J. Venter acting head of the Johannesburg f^ u n t y Branch, said: "The pos­sibility that Mrs. Goldreich may be called as a State witness in

trial is extremely doubtful as- far as we are con­cerned."Mrs. Goldreich was released

from detention last Saturday, three days before she would have completed the full 90 days allowed under the 90-day deten­tion clause of the General Law Amendment Act. Since her re­lease she has been staying with friends.

She said last week that she did not intend to join her hus­band in England immediately.

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i> rt ; d ! iT ? kElf persjne shf waarskyn-

lik reeds Dinsdag in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria verskyn wanneer die op- spraakwekkende „Rivonia- saak” begin.

lien van die belangrikste aangeklaagdes is Nelson Mandella, voormalige leier van die verbanne African National Congress. Hy sal saam met James Kantor, die bekende .lohannesburgse pro- kureur, Dennis Goldlierg, 'n ingenieur, Lionel Bernstein, 'n argilek, Walter Nisulti, 'n voormalige sekretaris-gp- neraal van die A.N'.O., Ah­med Kathrada, van die Transvaal Indian Congress on nog vyf ander Banloes v erskyn.

Hiille sal waarskynlik kragtens die Sabotasiewet aangekla- word.

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Rhodesia 1 /3 S U N D A Y ^ F X P R E S S Mainly fine ant warm.

JOHANNESBURG, OCTOBEk 6, 1963.

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I| The dramatic scene outside .Marshall Square Police station | Johannesburg, yesterday when 3 3 - y e a r - o U M r Z l Sf h ' " f u l / ’.3 hcr n,0,her- 1 ,,s - -Wa/m/, Tiiian, afterOoldreiclis release f r o m 9 0 -d o y ^ ention.

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reich freedBUBBLED OVER

# Mrs. Goldreich last night celebrated her release with her family.

A relative told me: “ She teas bubbling over with happiness. Her children, Nicholas and Paul, were very thrilled to see her and climbed all over her.

“ Nicholas told her that he had come third in class and his youn­ger brother, Paul, not to be out­done, said that he had also done well at school.

“ At this moment tit was 11.SO p.m.) Nicholas is on her lap and Paul is asleep.’’ Mrs. Goldreich has no immediate plans. The relative told me, that apart from the solitary confinement, she had been well treated at Marshall Square.

She appeared to have lost weight, but was well.

In addition to her mother and children. Mrs. Goldreich last night met other close relatives. They were ‘ thrilled to see her again.”

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Pretoria venter,,f?,nl°ur. offlcer I<n Pretoria veste? ,SenicLr dfficerl 6e Z 1L‘° ^ after lengthythat last-minm y ’ h°wever, £ F ,°ds of detention. They havelu,d been made tor her **te rema«ded to a laterhad been

A°d he added f w her reIease- would be preferred a char^es Goldreich. ed against Mrs.

Goldreieh ' a f siiT g'reet Mrs. was her mother re,eased Berman, and sev’o r ^ 8' Maimie

Mrs. Goldreieh ral relatives. oar to in was taken bvOon, where h e r * Sed dest> ^ las, 9, and Paid * sons- Nicho. for her ’ 5’ were waiting

secretary-general of the A.N.C AHMED KATHRADA, of

the Transvaal Indian Congress.And five others whose names

■I was unable to obtain No details of the charge or

charges, were available yester­day.

thaV‘ , ' / ‘7 ,Ild establish was that the 11 accused would appear under the Sabotage Act, under some o f the pro- visions „ f which the deathn Z ! ? Ce , m‘ly " e ^PosedOne hundred and sixty-five de­

tainees White and non-Whiteh varim?adH aPPcared in court

,w‘ r o “ ;s charges after lengthy tods of detention. Thev

The Minister of Justice Mr Vorster, said recently that’ alle­gations were still heino- in-salo recently that alle- fatednS U(’re stiu bein? investl- teinees. a“ amSt 85 other de’

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^ RIV ONIAIACCUSEDSabotage hearing starts tomorrow

The Star’s Pretoria Bureau

'T'HE “ RIVONIA TRIAL” — the trial oncharges under the Sabotage Act of men

and women detained at the time of the raid on the Rivonia home of Arthur Goldreich, and of others detained later— will begin in the Palace of Justice, Pretoria, tomorrow.

It will be only a formal appearance for remand until a later date— possibly a fortnight — when the trial proper will start.It is not known how many will appear tomorrow.

But among those detained at Rivonia were Walter Sisulu, 50-year-old former Secretary-General of the banned African National Congress, and Ahmed kalh- rada. of the Transvaal Indian Congress.

Others detained included Lionel Bernstein, Or. Hilliard Festenstein, B. A. Hepple, an advocate, and a former mem­ber of the Congress of Demo­crats, Denis Goldberg.

Nine Africans were also detained, among them Gowan Mbeki of Port Elizabeth.

The best-known person who will appear tomorrow—and not among those detained at Rivonia’—is James Kantor, legal partner ahd brother-in-law of Harold Wolpe, who escaped with Arthur Gold­reich from Marshall Square on August 11 and who is now in London.

Kantor will be represented .by senior counsel and it is probable an application for bail will be made.

Status change.Mr. H. q. Nicholas, Q.C., with

him Mr. H. Schwartz and Mr. D. Kuny, have been bneled by Mr. Jack Cooper, 6i Benjamin Joseph, Cooper and Partners.

The formal start of the trial will bring with it a change of status of the detainees.

Until noon today they were being held under the 90-da.y Act, and so had no claim to many of the normal rights of prisoners, such as legal representation.

But from the moment they were served with indictments they be­came ordinary awaiting-trial Prisoners, with the right ot access to the courts and to ask for bail.

The wrong announcement that the trial would start today brought about 50 spectators to the Palace of Justice.

Most of them were Africans, among them women dressed in green and black uniform wearing a badge showing the face of Nelson Mandela.

Sisulu’s wife Veronica was in traditional Tembu dress.

Mandela’s aunt, Mrs. Koese, was also there.

THEY WILL I NOT BE THERE

The Star’s Pretoria BureauT W O people detained at ■*" Rivonia will certainly not be in court tomorrow—Arthur Goldreich and his wife Hazel.

Goldreich escaped from custody on August 11.

Mrs. Goldreich was re- \ leased on Saturday afternoon, and yesterday had an inter­view with the Deputy Attor- I ney-GeneraJ, Dr, Percy Yurar, f S.A., in his temporary office at The Grays.

Dr. Yutar will head the State team for the prosecu­tion. ■

Several Indian women were in saris, among them Mrs. Amina Cachalia.

V icto rianstylePhotographers and TV camera­

men waited in vain. The group dispersed quietly after about an hour.

Tomorrow’s proceedings will probably be held in G Court, one of the criminal courts, on the ground floor of the building.

It is a large chamber, furnished in Victorian style with brown

j polished wood and dark red | leather upholstery.

On the left is a jury bench—there will be no jury tomorrow—and on the right Press benches.

The Bar is in the centre and the dock behind it, with steep concrete stairs leading from the cells below.

Small dockThe dock is small—not more than

about six people could get in it comfortably—and the people before court may be arranged in the well ot the court.

The galleries are large. About 100 could sit comfortably at the back of the court, and another 40 in an upstairs gallery.

It is not known whether the pro­ceedings will be in public or in

| camera.■k A "water bomb” was thrown

on to people waiting outside Try i someone from a balcony ot the Palace of Justice this morning.

[ The “ bomb ’’—water in a sealed : Government Service envelope —! appeared to have been intended

tor a group ot Atrican and Indian women sitting on the steps out­side the building It missed, the women and hit the camera of a Press photographer.

^ armed invasionV* /V >

2 2 2 SABOTAGE ACTS ON INDICTMENT

HP HE 11 .MEN THE STATE ALLEGES committed 222 acts of sabotage in preparation for guerilla warfare

and armed invasion of South Africa will stand trial on October 29.

^ them are two organizations, one known variously in the indictment as the “ National High Command,” the “ National Executive Committee of the National Liberation Movement” and “ Umkonto We Sizwe 0 Spear of the Nation ") and the other the legal firm of James Kantor and partners.

t h ey a re : \el.son M a n d ela . II alter Sisalu. D en n is G oldberg ,G oran M behi, A h m ed U ohanied Kathrada, Lionel- B ern stein . R a y­m on d M ahlaba (th ese are the a lleg ed N ational High Command),

Jam es K an tor, E lias M atsoaledi, A n d rew 11langeni and B o b A le x ­ander H ep p el.

1 lie acts of sabotage are alleged to ba\e been committed between August 10. 1961 and August 5, 1963 and include the blowing up of the office of the

dataller. Durban, on January 18, 1963. They took place in all provinces of South Africa, and most were attacks against railway, post office and radio com­munications and the offices of Bantu Affairs Commisi' * —

Dr. Yutar said he understood the The case bad been set down for defence wanted a remand. yesterday, but when counsel

the

Most are being defended by Mr. Abraham Fischer, Q.C., who was one of senior counsel in the trea­son trial. Kantor is repre­sented bv Mr. H. C. Nicholas, Q.C., who also appeared for the defence at the treason trial.

They were not asked to plead.The five-page indictment alleges

three counts: One under the Sabo­tage Act, one under the Suppres­sion of Communism Act, and one under the Criminal Procedure Act.

The men are alleged to have acted in conceit with Vivian Ezra, Arthur Goldreich. Harold Wolpe, Percy Hodgson, Joe Slovo, Robert Resha. Oliver Tambo and several others now out of South Africa, and the Communist Party of South Africa and the African National Congress.

Revolution.. Tlle indictment adds that they conspired to commit, or incited.

aideci advised, encour- ! °i Procured other persons to I tr.™nid acts of sabotage prepara- „ , • ., • and in facilitation of, or I '1,1* "arfare in the Republic arii)edUl|!,Afr‘ca' complied with an

Mr. A. Fischer, Q.C.. announced at lived th./y were told that that he was appearing for six of mdictment was not ready.'

“ It has taken the statethe accused. He said t'here had nas «sen the State threebeen no time for consultation. months to frame the charges he

fore the court and in addition)Mr. H. C. Nicholas. Q.C.. said h* the, and ln additionwas appearing for Kantor. H< • d ^seized before the had only just seen the indictment La d °n tl..d Rlvonia house," Mr. and asked for. a remand of atj Fl^ r said, least four weeks. : Mr- Fiscl ‘w said that the state

The judge said he did not see casc lnaV 1 a , SJX weeks and the why such a long adjournment was acc»sed fat-eu 222 charges. The necessary. He said it would be defence mu,* have time to inves- possible to reserve cross-examina- J^ate thesi6 cases, which had tion. taken place over a period of two

Dr. Yutar said the State’s ° u? ree yea'rS'. attitude was that an adjournment „ "fent c11- There is an old of two weeks was adequate. He that iVstice must not onlyadded that the very latest date ? on®’ but justice must be seen that the State would agree to 1° be do” e- The accused in this' would be Tuesday October 29. are the P(!ople who carry, the

Mr. Fisher: "The accused aren^L !"eSPre? l of -f w ? Iarge pr°- charged on 222 charges of sabo- ° f th,e pJpu ation’ and fo r ;

_______________ th is reason alone Justice should be ’seen to be done.“There should oe no urgency to |

bring them to trial. We want jus- ap- tice to be seen to be done,” Mr.

Fischer said.He concluded by saying that the

trial had been sprung on thelast

IndictmentThe full indictment

pears on Page Five.

- -.«uu in m , — I ‘------ — » ----- — —j----........... ueienye all Tfg,---- 0 „— ^ —,the annex./ Ule indictment and I Under section 150 of the code a certain witnesses must be ct Attornev-c» 1 ,also lland ln the trial should take place not less before the end of the month.- General S nnt.hnrWotioT. 1 than 21 rinvQ Qftpr u nrpnora tnrv .. t rno,- fm. tv,..!,. ....

the

thebut

^ ^ “ V n ra ^ e m j tZr weekfiswhol^TnSat^At 10.10 V l r „ i m inutef t,? ’ r ! & ^ d The defLce needed time°

tus de Wet thP T HUStiCC Q: lal; ons^lt 6 Ce t0 ^ his reply Dr. Yutar said the jtook the Beiirh e Jud8e'Piesldent> ' State had spent about a month

Dr. Ppivm ,, After the adjournment, Mr. preparing the case. The defence,nc\-Genen~. Yutar- Deputy Attor- Fisher asked for a postponement in conjunction with the accused announced tvf tlle Tra" svaal- who Provisionally until November 11. should be able to interpret tht the ni-nja, i1131 he was leading , , , documents easily.Naude a M u ° t wiUl Mr- J- t J u d ge’ s p ow er

“Mv i , L Mr' T- B- Vorster, s a i d : — ------------------------------- I . , t i n n i e rState a„ 9 ■ 1 cad tbe casc of the One of the reasons for his ___—5____Commandant the National HlSh ! request was that the judge has the •• i am prepared to assist

"I hand i, ° thers- I power to grant an adjournment, defence all along the line,IQ t-llP inHirf-.mont- onH I TTnripr cppH nn 1 rvF flv/a nnHo a ___j._ :— ------ n iU St b e C8,lled

summarily/’

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Attorne d ' V ....... — • ........ “ | —- -.......- — .........— . . . . . .that the nr elal s authorization than 31 days after a preparatory - 1 fear for their safety, and it sabotage a 1>C charged with examination, but now that the is desirable that certain other summoi anu that U ty be tried General Law Amendment Act had witnesses be allowed to testify and

made it possible to have a sum- get this case over as soon as pos- mary trial he felt it was still the sible. The State wants to start intention of the legislature to have on October 29. a reasonable period before the trial The judge said a period o f three started.

Mr. Fischer said the men had been arrested on July 11. The Press had sqid that loads of docu­ments had been seized. The State has had to labour on the case for a full three months.

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Tli ------- -Yutar ,udee asked whether Dr.Plead o m d lhc accused t0 • oi he wanted a remand.

j Ui OI1XCCweeks would be quite sufficient.even if further postponements were necessary during He adjourned the October 29.

the trial case to

!

RS ta * alleges Bivonia

mell planned

Yutar fears & for safety of witnesses

PRETORIA REPORTER

DR. PERCY YUTAR, Deputy Attorney-General o f the Transvaal, opposed a lengthy adjournment o f the

Rivonia trial in the Supreme Court, Pretoria, yesterday, because he feared for the safety o f witnesses.

dock n4 . J ,ts to appearT H E MEN IN I HE DOCK of the Palace of Justice a ll!

looked drawn. Mr. l'ischer, applying lor a remand, spoke ° their mental state following 88 days of solitary confine- i ment.

He said they were not In a fit j state to appear. “ They need some considerable rest. For 90 days they have been in solitary confinement tor 23 hours a day. They have had i one hour of exercise. They have hot been allowed to talk to any­one.

} n the Criminal Code solitary onnnement has always been very

in- i*lly re?!>lated. No more than two days solitary confinement and :p®re diet per week is allowed

nc,er the present code.

Mandela. In the past nine months ; he has lost at least 301b. in weight and is thin and disspirited. He has aged many years.

So, too, has Sisulu.' Both are now clean-shaven. They were dressed in | new khaki uniforms with open- necked shirts.

Dr. Yutar, replying to a four- week adjournment plea by the defence counsel in the case, said he was prepared to help the de­fence “all along the line,” but witnesses should be allowed to testify and ‘get this matter over.”

The trial was postponed until October 29 after Mr. Justice De Wet, who was on the Bench, said that, in his opinion, three weeks’ adjournment was, at this stage, sufficient for the defence to study the indictment.

Earlier, while applying for a month’s adjournment, Mr. A. Fischer, Q.C., one of the defending counsel, said that a number of the 11 men charged with complicity in 222 acts of sabotage, were not in a fit state to appear and needed rest.

CONFINEMENTHe said the men had been kept

in solitary confinement for three months, with only one hour of exercise a day.

Furthermore, he alleged that they had been “subject to >theri stresses and strains.” They had been interrogated, threatened and) even offered rewards.

This was later challenged oyT H R E A T E N E D

,.r,„,ri1ese accused have been in confinement for 88 days. They _tl7e been subjected to other J esses and strains. Threats have meen, diade. They have been inter-

gated and they have even been offered rewards.”

^iseher said these conditions ’ “4 be changed. Even now they

kept in single cells for ft .„OUrsir ‘ and in these conditions the case ” 6 1Inpossible to prepare

Yutor f fisch®r 'Was assured by Dr. are nn«,°i State) that the men awaitinn t.b®\ng treated as ordinary theyw0gUd a‘ PnSoners and that with counsel ^ t0 consult rreel>’

k a n t o r s b a il

an application5 the court thal ' would be mad bail for Kantor

sas. ss“ “ r.tition . i ° , r„ ,,h*nt“ dun U" ‘ "change shows the most

n Physical appearance is

Dr. Yutar. “There is not a word of truth in these allegations,” he said.

Appearing before Mr. Justice

♦ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

YUTAR’S FEAR FOR WITNESSES

De Wet, Judge-President of the Transvaal, were:

Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Dennis Goldberg, Govan Mbeki A h m e d Mohamad Kathraaa.’ Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Man- laba, James Kantor, Ellas Mat- soaledi, Andrew Mlangeni and Bob Alexander Hepple.

HIGH COMMANDI The first seven are alleged to ! be members of an organisation

variously as the “National High Command,” the “National Executive Committee of the Na-Tn>su<,(/tn __j

PRETORIA, Wednesday. 'TH E indictment against 12

people, who are appearing on charges under the General Law- Amendment Act in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, was released today. Seven of the 12 are named in the indict­ment as members of the National High Command, the National E x e c u t i v e Com­mittee of the National Libera­tion Movement and the Um- konto We Sizwe (the Spear of the Nation).

The seven are Nelson Mandela, former leader of the banned African N a t i o n a l Congress Walter Sisulu, former Secretary- General of the African National Congress, Dennis Goldberg, a former member of the banned Congress of Democrats, Govan Mbeki, former member of the Eastern Cape branch of the A.N.C., Ahmed Mohamed Kath- rada, former secretary o f the Transvaal I n d i a n Congress Lionel Bernstein, an architect,’ and Raymond Mahlaba.

These seven are joined as members of an association under the Criminal Procedure Act, and are listed separately in their individual capacities.

. ? J o h a n n e s b u rg a tto rn e y , both in lu s p e rso n a l c a p a c ity a n d a s a p a r tn e r w ith H a ro ld W o lp e in an

F I i a s la M01}' ? ? t h fn th e nam e3 of M a tso a ld i, A n d re w M la n g e n ia S v o ca fe A Ie x a " d e r H e p p le . an

cn u n t5 a re o f sa b o tag e a,"d ot, o u n c e s u n d e r th e S u p p re s ­s io n of C o m m u n ism A c t a n d o f co n ­tra v e n in g th e C r im in a l L a w A m e n d -W W k A c t ____________ ___

A n n e x u re s l i s t 522 se p ara te ' a c ts o f sa b o tag e , s t re t c h in g in t im e fro m D e ce m b e r 15, 1961 — w h e n an e x - p lo stv e w a s p la ce d a g a in s t th e doo r of th e M u n ic ip a l B a n tu A d m in ia t ra t io n orncpis m n in-bn n ___

A re e x t in g u is h in gm e d ica lse rv ice s .

( D ) A n y p o sta l, te le p h o n e o r t e le ­g ra p h se rv ic e s o r in s ta lla t io n s o r ra d io t ra n s m it t in g , b ro a d c a s t in g o r re % \Vm£ . ser7 ic e s o r in s ta lla t io n s .

t t y ih e fre e m o v em en t o f a n v tra ffic on la n d .

( F ) A n y p ro p e rty , w h e th e r m o v ­a b le o r im m o v ab le , o f a n y o th e r p e rso n o r o f the S ta te ;

. „ (2), J C o n s p ire d w ith o th e r p e rso n s to a id o r p ro c u re th e c o m m iss io n of o r to co m m it, o r in c ite d , in st ig a te d co m m an d e d , a id e d , a d v ise d e n ­co u ra g e d o r p ro cu re d o th e r p e rso n s tp co m m it th e a fo re m e n tio n e d w ro n g ­fu l an d w ilf u l a c ts of sa b o tag e p re p a ra to ry to , an d in fa c il ita t io n of' g u e r i l la w a r fa r e in th e R e p u b lic of b o u th A f r ic a , co u p le d w ith an a rm ed in v a s io n of. an d a v io le n t re v o lu t io n in . th e sa id re p u b lic , a l l of w h ic h

,of th e ir c o n s p ira c y , w e re a c t iv e ly p la n n e d a n d e n v isa g e d on? ™ ‘ l l t a r y b a s i3 «Pd w ith h o s t ile in te n t in o rd e r to d is tu rb , im p a ir o r e n d a n g e r th e in d e p e n d e n ce an d

Africa °f the Republic of South(3) P o s s e s s e d e x p lo s iv e s , A re a rm s

a n d w eap o n s .

pho ne w ir e s c u t betw een P o r t E l i z a - i beth an d G ra h a m s io w n (12.30 a m ) „ » ° Pt0T ? r 2? /2 7 : T e le p h o n e c a b le cu tt ra t in n >ePanfflle n t ° C Tv aP tu A d m in is - | (n lg h O Offlo63' P ie t e rm a r it z b u rg |

D e ce m b e r 15: P la s t ic h o ld e r w ith h ^ o - g re y p o w d e r p ack ed a g a in s t office d o o r o f M u n ic ip a l B a n tu A d -

,0 ,i5ce s ' O rd n a n ce R o a d , (9 15b p mE )X P l° Sion ca u se d no d am ag e

tio n offices in D u rb a n — u n t ilH n f U=Se TJ5, 1363, w h e n a te lep h o n e l in e at R o o d e p o o rt w a s cut.

T h e c h a rg e sh e e t n ot o n ly a lle g e s a c ts of sa b o tag e , b u t a lle g e s th a t th e se w e re p re p a ra to ry to , an d in o rd e r to fa c il ita te , g u e r i l la w a r fa re in S o u th A f r ic a , co u p led w ith an a rm e d in v a s io n o f an d a v io le n t re v o lu t io n in S o u th A f r ic a .

A T R IV O N IAT h e co u n t of sa b o ta g e a lle g e s th a t

o r ab o u t th e p e rio d J u n e 27, 19 a2, J u I y 11: 1963' at R iv o n ia an d M o u n ta in View', Jo h a n n e sb u rg : an d a t T r a v a l ly n , K ru g e r s d o rp . a s w e ll a s a t o th e r c e n tre s in S o u th A f r ic a , th e a ccu se d , a c t in g in c o n ­c e r t an d c o n s p ir in g an d m a k in g ao™ ” ° n P u rp o se w ith V iv ia n E z r a H a lm e l p0 sep h T G o ld re ic h , M ich a e l ttarU iH ' ? f rcyv H o d g so n . Jo e S lo v o H a io ld S tra c h a n . H a ro ld W olD eJo°hnS KTotanev; T e n n y s o n M a k iw a n e , M o d lse JOp T P, ‘ M a r k s - Jo h a n n e s J a m e s t I d T D u m a N o k w e , a n ? O h ™ P » d e b c , R o b e r t R e s h a ,Partv' nfr J al?!bo' tbe CommunistA fr ica n , ? o u tb A f r ic a a n d the i n ‘ a c o u ^ a 1 °rn a I C o n S r e s s - e n g ag ed th e y w ro n t f °M e o n d u ct d u r in g w h ich

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P r e ^ o n . o f C o m m u n ism A c t , a lle g e s th a t d u r in g o r a b o u t th e p e rio d J u ly 1. 1961, to J u ly 11, 1962. an d a t th e p la ce s m en tio n e d in co u n t 1 th e a cc u s e d a c t in g in c o n ce rt an d* con- S \ ' „ d m a k in g com m on p u rp o se y ' tb th e P e rso n s an d b o d ie s m e n ­t io n e d in co u n t 1. e n g ag e d in a c o u rs e Of co n d u ct d u r in g w h ic h th e y w ro n g fu l y an d u n la w f u l ly p e rfo rm e d a c t s , w h ic h w e re p la n n e d ' and e n ­v isa g e d in te rm s Of th e ir c o n s p ira c y a P d w b lch w e re c a lc u la te d to fu r t h e r

8 a< le v e m e n t o f one o r m o re o r a l ‘ ,c’ f th e o b je c ts of C o m m u n ism . a co u n t u n d e r th e C r im in a l L mw A m e n d m e n t A c t a lle g e s th at d u r in g o r a b o u t th e p e rio d J u ly 1 1961to J u ly 11, 1963, an d a t th e ’ p la ce s m en tio n e d in co u n t 1. th e accu sed a c t in g in c o n ce rt an d c o n s p ir in g an d m a k in g com m on p u rp o se w it l f the p e rso n s an d b o d ies n am e d in co u n t 1, e n g ag e d m a c o u rs e o f co n d u ct d u r in g w h ic h th e y w ro n g f u lly an d u n la w f u l ly s o lic ite d , a cce p te d ands n n T e d K T n e y , fro m v a r io u s p e r? so n s or b o d ies o f p e rso n s , b o th w ith -A f r P ? o u ta id « th e R e p u b lic of S o u tli A f r ic a , a n d g a v e m o n e y to v a r io u s p e rs o n s or b o d ie s of p e rs o n s fo ? th e p u rp o se o f e n a b lin g o r a s s is t in g

co m m iss io n o f offences, su c h a ! a re d e ta ile d in co u n ts l an d 2 in su p p o rt o f a ca m p a ig n a g a i n ?

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D e c e m b e r 17: C h e m ic a l bom b d am a g e d d o o rs an d w a lls B a n tu h , ? ? r S T 9fflces- C a r r S tre e t . F o r d s ? b u rg , J o h a n n e s b u rg (2.15 a .m .) .c . t e ” i b e r 1 7 : C h e m ic a l bom b r w n ? d at R is s ik S tre e t P o s tOffice, J o h a n n e s b u rg (n ig h t) .

D e ce m b e r 17: P e t r o l s t re w n o v e rOffi1e°f PnntUuAffai/ s Commissioner's Office, E n g co b o , fro m re d p la st ic co n ta in e r . C o n ta in e r not lig h te dE ? I ' ? ; iPeK .th r ,°0u « b u '>b Pltad w indow .'

D e ce m b e r 18: C h e m ic a l bom b— non m ^ Ser , c/?Uf!?d ,17 in P h ir im a P o s t

^ e s . Jo h a n n e s b u rg . o i i? n ie ld b e r d y n a m ite u sed an ds l ig h t d am ag e cau sed in p e ri-u rb a n d is t r ic t Office . K lip to w n .

D e ce m b e 1- 18 : D y n a m ite u sed - , 2 ,'d ly „a n y d am ag e — su p e rin te n d e n t ’s office, Zone th ree . M e ad o w lan d s.t«Sec? ? b. r- 20: T,wo Iess °t cacb ot tw o e le c t r ic p y lo n s d am ag e d by d jn a m it e a t L o m b a rd y E a s t n e a r E d e n v a le H o s p ita l . H o m e -m ad e e l l ?

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p la ce d in sto re ro o m b e n e ath s ta g e in the C it y H a l l , C a p e T o w n .

J a n u a r y 16: H o m e -m a d e bom b d am ag e d d o o r o f c o n cre te h o u s in g of E sc o m in K w a z a k e le L o c a t io n , P o r t E l iz a b e th . D a m a g e R 3 4 (n ig h t ) .

J a n u a r y 2*4: R o o fin g to rn a p a rt b y c h e m ica l bom b a t t ra n s fo rm e r s ta t io n on p re m ise s of R o a d s D e p a rtm e n t n e a r N e w B r ig h to n . P o r t E l iz a b e th . D a m a g e R200 (9.30 p .m .)

F e b r u a r y 19: C h e m ic a l b om b — ca u se d no d a m a g e — R is s ik S tre e t p o st office, J o h a n n e s b u rg (n ig h t ) .

F e b r u a r y 4: B u r n in g c ig a re tte to ­g e th e r w ith liv e m a tch e s in post box a t C a le d o n post office, C a p e T o w n .

F e b r u a r y 7: C h e m ic a l bom b p la ce d in te lep h o n e b o o th -d o o r to rn a p a rt an d ro o fin g c ra c k e d . I n D o n k in S tre e t . P o r t E l iz a b e th (a t 8 p .m .)

F e b r u a r y 7/9 : C h e m ic a l b om b — no d am ag e ca u se d — B a n tu C o m ­m is s io n e r ’s Office, Jo h a n n e s b u rg .

M a rc h 10: P e t r o l bom b— no d am ag e c a u se d — B a n tu d w e llin g . N ew B r ig h ­ton . P o r t E l iz a b e th (1 a .m .)

M a rc h 10: T e le p h o n e w ire s c u t — u n k n o w n in s t ru m e n t u se d — a t K w a ­z a k e le L o c a t io n , P o r t E l iz a b e th (9 p .m .)

M a rch 13: R a i lw a y te lep h o n e w ir e s c u t at N e w B r ig h to n . P o r t E l iz a z b e t h ( n ig h t ) .

L A N G A R IO TM a rch 16: P o lic e v e h ic le b o m b a rd ed

w ith p e tro l b o m b s d u r in g r io t — L a n g a L o c a t io n , C ap e T o w n . V e h ic le o v e rtu rn e d an d se t a lig h t . O n e A f r i ­can c o n sta b le k i l le d an d o th e r w o u n d e d a t 10.20 p.m .

A p r i l 15: H o m e -m a d e bom b p la ce d a g a in s t g ao l d o o r — R o e la n d S tre e t g ao l, C a p e T o w n .

J u l y 7 /8 : H o m e -m a d e t im e bom b p la ce d u n d e r h a n d b a s in in B a n tu C o m m is s io n e r ’s Office, E v a to n . B o m b fo u n d b e fo re e x p lo sio n .

J u l y 20: B u r n in g c ig a re tte p la ce d in p o st b ox , to g e th e r w ith liv e m a tch e s . T w o c a se s in C ap e T o w n .

A u g u s t 12: D y n a m ite p la ce d in W ilb e r fo rc e post office, E v a to n , V e re e n ig in g . A l l w in d o w s sh a tte re d , h o le r ip p e d in floor an d c e i lin g s . O n c- room ed office.

A u g u s t 26 : L o a d e d b la s t in g c a r t ­r id g e — a b o u t 12-15 in c h e s— u n d e r ­g ro u n d . p la ce d a t o u te r le g s of c o rn e r to w e r w ith e le c t r ic s t a r t e r a t e le c t r ic p y lo n , a b o u t tw o m ile s fro m P u tfo n - te in p o lice s ta t io n , B e n o n i d is t r ic t . O n e b la s t e xp lo d e d .

S e p te m b e r 2 : D y n a m ite u se d — flo or an d c e i l in g d am ag e d — a t B a n tu R e fe re n c e B u re a u , O r la n d o , J o h a n ­n e sb u rg .

S e p te m b e r 18: In c e n d ia r y bom b th ro w n in to d w e llin g o f B a n tu s e r ­g e an t. N e w B r ig h to n , P o r t E l iz a b e th .

S e p te m b e r 19: H o m e -m a d e bom b th ro w n in to m u n ic ip a l b e e r h a l l , N e w B r ig h to n . P o r t E l iz a b e th .

B O T T L E T H R O W NS e p te m b e r 2 2 : O n e bottle bom b

th ro w n in B a n tu s in g le q u a r te r s o f S o u th A f r ic a n P o lic e , N e w B r ig h to n , P o r t E l iz a b e th . N o dam ag e .

S e p te m b e r 2 3 : In c e n d ia r y bom b u se d B a n tu d w e llin g , L o v e d a le C o lle g e .

S e p te m b e r 23 : In f la m m a b le b o ttle bom b le ft in office o f B a n tu A d m in is ­t ra t io n , D u n c a n V i lla g e , E a s t L o n -

. don.S e p te m b e r 23 : N e w B r ig h to n ,

atte m p t to se t fire to w o o l on w ool a u c tio n e e rs ’ p re m ise s .

S e p te m b e r 23: T e le p h o n e w ir e s c u t — K w a z a k e le L o c a t io n , P o r t E l iz a b e th .

S e p te m b e r 23 : P a ra ff in th ro w n a g a in s t d o o r o f fa c to ry an d se t a l ig h t a t K o rs te n .

S e p te m b e r 24 : In c e n d ia r y bom b u se d — B a n tu d w e llin g , P o r t E l i z a ­beth.

S e p te m b e r 23 : S to n e c ru s h e r s and e x p lo s iv e a r s e n a l fo rce d an d p e r­c u s s io n c a p s sto len at R ed h o ug e.

F r o m S e p te m b e r 24-30 th e re w e re e ig h t sa b o ta g e a tte m p ts in P o r t E l iz a b e th , C a p e T o w n an d J o h a n n e s ­b u rg . In c e n d ia r y bom bs, d y n a m ite , p ara ffin an d b o ttle b o m b s w ere u sed .

D u r in g O cto b e r th e re w e re n in e sa b o ta g e a tte m p ts in P o r t E l iz a b e th . J o h a n n e s b u rg an d D u rb a n .

O c to b e r 14: A n in c e n d ia ry bom b w a s p la ce d in th e c a r r ia g e o f a p a s s e n g e r t r a in a t P h o e n ix S ta tio n . D u rb a n . D e to n a to r e x p lo d e d but s u b s ta n c e in th e t in d id n o t ca tch a lig h t .

O c to b e r 15: R120.000 d am ag e w a s ca u se d w h e n o i l le a k e d an d ca u g h t f ire a f te r an e x p lo s iv e , p la ce d on top o f a d ru m a g a in s t a t ra n s fo rm e r a t th e su b -p o w e r p la n t , so u th o f R a i l ­w a y B r id g e , F o r d s b u r g , J o h a n n e s ­b u rg , ig n ite d .

D Y N A M I T EN o v e m b e r 9 : D y n a m ite u se d on

h ig h te n s io n w ir e s n e a r M a r itz b u rgD u r in g N o v e m b e r 11 to 30 th e re

w e re 20 sa b o ta g e a tte m p ts in P o r t E liz a b e th , Jo h a n n esb u rg -, D u rb a n C a p e T o w n , E a s t L o n d o n . D u r in g th e n ig h t D e ce m b e r 16 to 17 th e re w e re s ix sa b o ta g e a tte m p ts in J o h a n ­n e s b u rg an d P o r t E l iz a b e th .

D e ce m b e r 3 : In c e n d ia r y bom b

th ro w n th ro u g h w in d o w o f m u n ic ip a l w o rk s h o p s , N e w B r ig h to n . N o damage.

D e ce m b e r 5 : D e n t ca u se d b y d y n a - JW ® e x p lo s io n , e le c t r ic t ra n s m is s io n pole a t U m la a s B r id g e n e a r L o u is B o th a A irp o r t , D u rb a n . N o d am ag e (e v e n in g ). “

D e ce m b e r 9 : T w o p ro p s o f to w e r to rn off b y e x p lo s io n , lo w e r in g c a b le s w h ic h w e re rip p e d off b yrm eoi iP y corV a ,,o li i tw o m ile s from C lm d a le S ta tio n . D a m a g e , R2.000.

D e ce m b e r 18: In c e n d ia r y bom b th ro w n a t p a rk e d G o v e rn m e n t v e h ic le s in C ap e T o w n ( C a s t le a re a ) . M e d ic in e b o ttle c o n ta in in g b e n zin e u sed . N o d am ag e .

D e ce m b e r 23: T im e -b o m b m ad e fro m a w a te rp ip e , fix e d to r a i lw a y c a b le on th e E s p la n a d e , n e x t to the

, ° S . ™ a in ‘ in e f r °m d o ck s to W e s ts S ta tio n , D u rb a n . N o e x p lo sio n .

D e ce m b e r 23: H o m e -m a d e bom b ™ i 1 J?o st box. M a in

Damaged: WeSt Street Dul'ban'F I F T E E N A C T S

J a n u a r y . 1963: F if te e n a c ts of sa b o ta g e , s ix in v o lv in g d y n a m ite . T h re e e x p lo s io n s , one in ju r in g W h ite 5?a a m8 Ik m g in D u rb a n stre e t. In

T(uW n' 5P g a llo n s o f p e tro l lo st y 'b en th e p e tro l p ip e o f a su p p ly ta n k in th e h a rb o u r w a s u n sc re w e d . T o w l i J a S u a r y 23/24. in th e old

i S y n a g o g u e , P a u l K r u g e r ftn e e t . P r pt ° n a a t in p a il co n ta in -

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expfoasTon S6ed ° U w ere fo u n d - N oi 963: N in e te e n a c ts of

t S R k ? * e ” P r P t o r la, J o h a n n e s b u rg . ™ J r L . C f Pe _To\vn,, P o r t E l iz a b e th an d E a s t L o n d o n . A f r ic a n scho o l in L a n g a b u y a L o c a t io n . P a a r l , d e s ­tro y e d on F e b r u a r y 18, w h en b u rn -

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wMch^jnclude^6 attempts0 toSJdisrupt& U T d X rlL Adelai§e’ P°« Eliza-

A p r i l : F iv e a c ts , in c lu d in g th e b 'o 'v 'n g u p o f an e m p ty b u ild in g onw iV iT r K m i^ t r 1 8 ^3 in J °h a n n e s b u rg w ith d y n a m ite . A s ig n a l b o x w a s n ot d am ag e d . E ig h te e n s t ic k s o f d y n a ­m ite co n n ected w ith tw o fu se s w e re p la ce d in th e F o r d s b u r g P o s t Office

o f .." 'h ic R o n e d e to m aL ° l an d fo u r s t ic k s of d y n a m ite exp lo d e d , .T b e re w a s no d am ag e .

M a y . 1963: F iv e a c ts o f sa b o tag e fivo ™ r f ?h m ed sa b o ta g e — b u n d le s o f !}f” e ™ ,aA c„h e a eat h foi ln d in flve b a le s of cotton on b o a rd a s h ip b ou n d fro m P o r t E l iz a b e th to L iv e rp o o l O n ly th e m a tch h e a d s a p p eare d .

a te lep h o n e l in e at R o o d e p o o rt w a s cu t T w o nponip di e? th ro u g h sa b o ta g e a tte m p ts and at le a s t 17 w e re in ju r e d .— (S a p a .)

Sabotage men’s * * treatmenta w a i t i n g t r i a l p r is o n e r s

S.A. Press Association

PRFTORIA — The 11 Whites and non-Whites who stood in the dock

trial prisoners. senior official of the The judge asked Dr Percy!----- said] Yutar, Deputy Attorney-GeneralPrisons Department 0f the Transvaal who is leading

most had been held in terms the state case, whether it was of section 17 o f the General possible for him to say that there I gw Amendment Act — the was evidence of Kantor’s compli- 9 0 l y T e ? e ” ion section - cUy In • » « « . ..be-and were subject to the con- Dr Yutar: There is no doubt ditions of imprisonment pro- about it at ail.

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scene of tggest sabotage

trialPretoria Reporter

PRETORIA’S old g r a n i t e Supreme Court, overlooking

ne capital city’s historic Church j quare, was yesterday the scone j f the biggest sabotage trial heldj i South Africa.In the heavily-draped court — i

he first of the three courts lead- ng from the domed foyer of the milding — 11 men appeared on harges alleging 222 acts of j abotage.

OUTNUMBEREDBy 9,30 a.m. armed security and

iniformed police were concen-! ;rated in force at the entrances] to the building, and by far out-j numbered the spectators.

When the hearing started soon after 10 a.m. the public gallery was packed, but security police still made up about a third of the people in the courtroom.

Humid conditions in the court rapidly became worse as people crammed the doorways.

An old-fashioned fan suspended from the high ceiling swished in­effectively with a lopsided beat at times the only sound in the court.

At 10.08 the accused were led up the steps from the underground cells and into the ornately carved dock.

A second temporary dock, a skeletal wooden structure, was Provided for the overflow from the dock.

SMILEDOutside the building security

precautions were strict and armed police stood guard in all corridors ] in the court building itself. Aj policeman even replaced the lift-] man, and others stood by with satchels of tear gas bombs.

Once in the dock the accused were subdued, occasionally smil­ing or joking with each other. Without exception they fixedly; watched slightly built Dr. Percy Yutar. S.A., the Deputy Attorney-; General and the State Prose-, cutor. I

--- ------- i- - -UUUL 1L 0.1*.virled f o r in that law. The men appeared only briefly

year for incitement and leaving the country illegally.

The ten 90-day detainees also accused are Dennis Goldberg,Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, ot Port Elizabeth; Ahmed Kathrada,Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Mah- laba, James Kantor, Elias Matsoa- ledi, Andrew Mlangeni and BobHepple. .

The official said they were not allowed visitors or to write or ] receive letters, without the ex- press permission of the Minister of Justice or a commissioned police officer. This permission had been granted on "quite a few occasions.”

Visits and

lettersIt was not true that all 90-day

detainees were kept in solitary confinement. The conditions of their accommodation depended on the facilities available at the place where they were being held.

Now, however, the 11 men will be accorded the same treatment as any other awaiting-tnal prisoner. They will be allowed regular visits from friends and relatives and he able to write and receive letters.

The only work they would have to do would be personal tasks, like making their beds and keep­ing their cells tidy.

It was pointed - out that the prison authorities preferred to place awaiting trial prisoners in cells alone, but this was not always possible, and sometimes more than one was accommo­dated in a cell.

Kantor bail

refusedAn application for bail for

Kantor was refused by Mr Justice Quartus dc Wet. ,

The application was made on j Kantor’s behalf by his counsel.,Mr H C. Nicholas.

The judge said there was no

preventKantoT'sUPP^ng over the j

Mr. Alex Hepple, toriner leader of the Labour Party and father of Bob Hepple, leaves the court after the

4)4*1 adjournment.

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CAPITALCHARGES

A g a i n s t

W ^ a in e e sCrime Reporter

(CHARGES for which the death sentence can be imposed will

be brought against certain 90- day detainees, including some of the people held in the Rivonia raid in July, at trials due to start next week.

A police spokesman said there was still some speculation about the dates on which actual trials would start. However, a number of detainees, including those ar­rested at Rivonia, whose deten­tion periods expired on Tuesday or Wednesday, would appear in magistrates' courts for formal re­mand to the Supreme Court, Pretoria.

Although the trials are expected to hinge on allegations of sabot­age and subversion, it is under­stood that even more serious charges will be brought against some of the detainees.

S E N S A T I O N A LPolice have indicated that evi­

dence will consist of sensational material which will "shock the country.”

The Minister of Justice, Mr. Vorster, said recently that 165 White and non-White detainees would appear in court on saDot- af,e and related charges. He said ^'legations were still being in­s tig a ted against 85 others.

escaPed detainee, Arthur oidreich, whom Mr. Vorster de-

™ '°ed as one of the "big fishes” n-°/v,d also have been charged with offences against the Republic ®anous enough to have merited the death sentence, it was learnt yesterday,

A L S O C H A R G E DMost of the evidence, in th

form of documents, letters, diarlei typewriters and other equipmem was discovered in his Rivani house.u wife, Hazel Goldreich, wh o _ , detained at MarshaSquare, will aiso be charged.

againX6? WU1 also be brougr !jL, , James Kantor, the Johaneri att°rney, who was arresl a fln j clty office in Augus Em,oW ? ays aftcr the Marsha square breakout.

RIVONIA RAID V TRIALS SOON

CECUR1TY POLICE at The Grays Police Headquarters mS are working full “> g™of the escape to Becliuanaland of two of their big UA* Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe. ___

Working in close consultation < i with the Attorney-General s Office,!, thev expect prosecutions to be

opened soon against several people taken in the Rivonia raid more than a month ago. Summary trials are expected to take place at the Rand Criminal Sessions.

Fresh information is continually being received at The Grays. This, together with documents found at Rivonia, is being thoroughly examined.

The Johannesburg attorney, Mr. James Kantor, who was detained under the 90-day clause of the: General Law Amendment Act shortly after the break-out from Marshall Square of four detainees, is unlikely to be released in the near future.

He is concerned in security police investigations which are preceding the expected prosecu­tions. .. ...Extra security police activities throughout the country, initiated at the time of the search for the four escaped detainees, arc being maintained despite the fact that Goldreich and Wolpe are m Bechuanaland. The search for the other two, Moosa Moolla and Abdulhai Jassat, continues.

AMNESTY f MAN AT %, TRIALSThe executive secretary of |

j Amnesty International, the organ- I ization “ concerned with prisoners | of conscience throughout the | world,” arrived in Johannesburg yesterday on a ten-day visit to South Africa.

He attended the Blaxall trial to­day and will be in the public gailerv at the Palace of Justice, Pretoria, for the trial of the Rivonia detainees.

He is Mr. Peter Benenson, a London barrister, who is also secretary for the International Association for Catholic Lawyers. His 1 ission in South Africa is to find out to what extent religious organizations can carry on their i

' missions in South Africa.Amnesty is supported by all

religious denominations and politi­cal parties in Britain and other democratic countries. Members form groups throughout the world and each adopts one or more " prisoners of conscience ” in tire East and the West. I

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tcrank or from som eone trying very hard to disguise his hand­writing and literary standard.

“ The gist o f the note, w hich I certainly don ’t rem em ber verbatim, ls to the follow ing effect. ‘You m ust look after your own fam ily, I (or we) am too closely watched. I (or we) will contact you again.’

DestroyedThe note also contained an in­

timation that it should be des- t tr°yed and was unsigned.

C antor says that he destroyed the note, “ because if it was from a crank, that would probably be the last that I would hear about It, whilst if It were genuine, X was not prepared to become involved in any circum ­stances.“ T he week before m y detention

I was consulted by a young A fr i­kaans-speaking m an who told me a long tale about how he was going to liberate Festenstein (one Of the persons arrested at Rivonia) m Pretoria over the week-end, and 1 ™ he was thereafter prepared to fly W olpe and G oldreich out o f :“ e country for a price o f RIO,000 tor him and R1.000 for the pilot.

‘The fun details of this inter- ofSTv.Were furnlshed to a member nr *■„ s Pecial Branch during one

the visits to m y office.”own Political activities,

ho . says he had been a m em - th l °1£JX)th *he United Party and he -ToBressive Party only, that j,.,. had never been politically im ive' and that politics did notmterest him.

1 have always been outspoken Communism in any form,

. J also have no illusions as what Black nationalism would

— an to mo and all the other

| WIFE AT |COURT

;! JAMES K A N T O R ’S counsel. <!’ M r. H. Schwarz, w ho appeared ■ !; with Mr. H. C. Nicholas, S.A.,

i: during K antor’s bail applica- tion, is seen leaving the

' 1 court during the lunch recess, ■| * accom panied by Mrs. Barbara ! '! K antor, K antor’s wife, and his j m other, Mrs. P. K antor. !|

W hites in th is country.“ Sergeant Van Zyl states that

m y staff have inform ed him that m y suite o f offices was used as a m eeting place for banned per­sons . . . i f this is so, it is w ith ­out m y knowledge, authority or consent, and I am certain that m y staff will con firm that if such meetings took place, I was never advised.”In his petition for bail, K antor

inform ed the court that h e is the sole support o f h is widowed mother, his wife and two children. His father, Abraham K antor, died in June o f this year. H is wife, Mrs. Barbara K antor, was about six m onths pregnant.

He was entirely Innocent o f all the charges set out in the indict­ment, and has a t n o time been aware o f any plan to com m it sabotage or o f any o f the acts alleged in the other counts o f the indictm ent. He would, under no circum stances associate h im ­self with the com m ission o f any crim inal offence.K antor’s application for bail was

made by his counsel, M r. H. C. Nicholas, S.A., assisted by Mr. H. Schwarz. __________ _________ _

In court he lookedpale. . .

•pLEVEN m en went on trial this week in the R ivon ia sabotage

ca se in the P a lace o f Justice, Pretoria. T hey faced charges a lleg in g 222 acts o f sabotage.

T h ey stood in the d ock in the order in w h ich th ey w ere nam ed in the indictm ent.

0 F irst, dressed in khaki, w as N elson M andela. H e w a s a big ,pow erfu lly -bu ilt m an once, but n ow h e is thin.

0 N ex t w as W alter Sisulu, sm all, m y op ic— his 88 days o f confinem ent d id n ot seem to h ave had a n y noticeab le effect uponhim .

• G oldberg, in a blue suit, stood erect— he w as pale.

• A h m ed K athrada, w earin g dark glasses, turned In the d ock and w aved to som eone In the ga llery . H e seem ed the least a ffected o f them all.

• L ionel B ernstein , in the second dock , leaned ov er th e railing. H e looked draw n and haggard .

0 Jam es K antor, behind B ern­stein, w as a lso pale, bu t appearedunconcerned. f,,

0 B ob H epple w as last— he had lost a little w eight, but otherw ise appeared nonchalant.

T he other accused w ere : G ovan Mbeki, R aym ond M ahlaba, Elias M atsoaled l and A n drew M lan- gcni. _________ _________________

Attorney's dramatic statement to

“ Ill-feeling between Goldreich and me” over a business deal

By M ICHAEL HANNON^JOHANNESBURG attorney James Kantor has set out in a dramatic state­

ment to the police his meetings with Arthur Goldreich and his relation­ship -with Harold Wolpe.

Kantor appeared in the Supreme Court in Pretoria this week with others on charges of sabotage. His statement accompanied the application for bail sub­mitted by his counsel. The application was refused by the Judge - President,Mr. Justice De Wet.Kantor in his statement

blames Wolpe for his detention.Kantor says he knew both

Goldreich and Mrs. Goldreich “for some years and had seen them at occasional parties, but there was ill-feeling between Goldreich and me because about ten years ago, he (Goldreich) persuaded me to invest in a furniture manufactur- ln® venture which cost me in a Matter of a few months an amount of R4.000."

Kantor’s then business part- ner also lost money in this trans­action. When Goldreich’s Kivo- " Ia home was raided in July, Kantor states, he received a telephone call from Goldrcich's mother, who asked him to go to; the Goldreich home to fetch the children."This was the very first occa­

sion in my life that I had ever been there,” Kantor said.

Courtingmet Wolpe “nine to ten years

f ?■ when he was courting my srer Annmarie.” He later

p o a c h e d Wolpe to Join his legal

r * must make it clear that y c . * aware that Wolpe’s poli-

__Vlews appeared to run alongW m u n is t lines . . . he gave t l m . u n d e r s t a n d i n g at the WoulH f° re joining me, that he ful '"K age in any unlaw-it _ r ° lt*cal activities at all and I u l l p“ rely on that basis that

* bim into my practice.”Interro^ .f^1®5 that while underPicture or v f1- he was shown a of th 01 Vivian Ezra (the directorGoldreir>v,‘l0mpany which bought aithmi^n 8 Rlvonia home), “and gested8t l ®ergeant Van Zyl sug- to on- » t Ezra had never been wronv oftlce. I think that he is that r l 1 am 99 Per cent, certain our wair e seen him both in office dltlnKroom and in Wolpe’sintrori., allhough I ” odUced to him.”Police°rC*ing to the statement, the the they have evidence thatreiCh ’sansaction to acquire Gold- throi.ei-Rivonia home was done nr°bgh Kantor’s office.

Transactions“ I was asked,” K antor states

"by Sergeant Van Rensburg t< explain certain trust accoun transactions regarding a property ‘Lily L eaf’ (the nam e of G oldreich ’i R ivonia hom e), the transfer o w hich was apparently handled b: j my o ffice and w hich is thi j property at which G oldreich am | others were arrested. I

“ I am Inform ed by the Specia t Branch that in respect o f thi . ‘Lily Leaf’ transaction all thi e requisitions bear W olpe's signa . ture and also the cheques which were issued.“ I am further told that m ost o f

them also bear m y signature. I cannot recall the transaction at all, but naturally accept that this is the position.

“ W hat I cannot accept, how­ever, is the assumption by the Special Branch that I must have had guilty knowledge of this, or for that matter, any other transaction o f an illegal matter handled by W olpe."T he other point that I was

questioned about in regard to ‘Lily L eaf’ was a bank guarantee apparently signed by W olpe and countersigned by me. I cannot rem em ber this particular trans­action, but I am quite sure the docum ents m ust have been pre­sented to me already prepared, and I m erely signed in the norm al course o f events.”

BlameK antor continues: “ I cannot

too strongly stress the fact that W olpe m ade it quite clear that apart from norm al legal work he was com pletely inactive politically, and it is only in the light of his arrest, escape and flight from the country and also what I have been told by the police, that I am beginning to realise that there must have been m ore to his a cti­vities than he disclosed to me, and that he has acted in a m an ­ner com pletely lacking in con ­sideration fo r his w ife and fam ily and for m e as his partner, as I feel that he is entirely to blame for m y detention."

Discussing Constable Johannes G reeff, w ho was recently sen­tenced to six years’ im prison­m ent a fter having been found guilty o f com plicity in the G oldreich-W olpe escape, K antor states that he does not know G reeff at all, and continues: « . . . they (G oldreich and W olpe) did not even pay the

| bribe they promised.”Kantor *ay» that be is eura, IX

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M RS. W OLPE . . . her fu g i­tive husband “com pletely lacking in consideration” for

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exonerate him from any com ­plicity in planning the escape.

90-day BillA fter the R ivon ia raid, K antor

says, “ W olpe began to keep away from the office. This in itself was nothing new, as he had done exactly the same thing after the prom ulgation o f the ‘90-Day B ill’ and on a previous occasion before that, the details w hereof I can no longer recall.

"I had not the slightest idea that he intended to try and cross the border."

The next occasion on which K antor recalled seeing W olpe was after W olpe ’s arrest.

“ I arranged with Colonel K lindt to see W olpe at my office during the tim e that the Special Branch were searching his o ffice^ w ith his hair dyed and his beard shaved off, he was hardly recognisable.”On the M onday follow ing the

escape o f G oldreich and W olpe a note was delivered to K antor ’s office.J 7 t_ w a s either from an illiterate

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Professors hit at UN demand

^ By D A V ID PINCUS- 'J , W O professors of law at the University of the Witwatersrand yesterday

condemned the demand made by the United Nations at its General t Assembly session on Friday, that South Africa should abandon the sabotage e trial in Pretoria and release those standing trial.

Professor H. R. HAHLO.

The two men—Professor H. R. Hahlo and Professor Ellison Kahn—considered the demand to be impertinent, unpreceden­ted interference in the domes­tic affairs of an autonomous State.

T h ey considered that by bring­ing the alleged offenders to a court, South A fr ica — unlike som e o f its accusers— w as a ctin g in the best tradition o f W estern civ ilisation and in accord ance w ith the rule o f law.

ImmoralP rofessor Kahn, P ro fessor ol

Law at the university, said : “ It Is im m oral to ask a cou ntry to stop the trial o f people accused o f sab ota ge or treason.

“ I t - is im m oral to ask that the trial o f people w ho are alleged to be prepared to kill, m aim and dam age p rop erty by the use of high exp losives should be s top ­ped.

“ The w hole th ing sm acks o f sanctim on ious h ypocrisy on the part o f som e o f the accu ser States.

“ I w ould be d istressed if those responsible fo r the bom bings in the D eep South o f the United States w eren ’t brought to a p ro ­per trial.”

Condemning P ro fessor Kahn said that, by

condem ning the trial, the U nited N ations was, by im pli­cation , con don ing the bom bing o f innocent people as a means o f a tta in in g a political end. H e described the dem and as "a

rather em otional ou tburst o f im ­m ature S ta tes” and added “ that the older, m aturer S tates were ill-advised to stand in line.

“ I t is obvious that the older S tates have forsaken m oral values fo r politica l gain.

“ T he ord inary p rocess o f law

will ensure that those who are standing trial, will, if they are not guilty, be found not guilty. That is a luxury that Ghana, one of our accusers, apparently denies its own political offenders, most of whom are in jail without having been tried.”

P rofessor H ahlo, D ean of F acu lty o f L aw at the university, said :

"N o cou ntry w ould dream o f dropping a trial fo r sa b ota ge or treason because other countries ask it to do so.

“ N ow that the m atter is being dealt w ith by a cou rt o f law , it will be dealt w ith in accord ance w ith the law .”

P.O. box fake shock for Rand business man

s iix n A Y TIMES CHIEF REPORTEa S T O D A ; ' , ™ ! , S, ■", h , n n " l’ " r s '

; L n i : : r . p - p~ * - * *«— "— •' ,>" " o n " l " y "

without tlie business man> knowledge^ — --------------------------! The m an is also said to hav '.given the business mans prvvat address in Parkwood as his

t T h e m an whose name was use is Mr. Desm ond G . Williams Southern A frica representative o a whisky distilling firm, a. ; war hero. He rose from th of private in the W itwatersram , Rifles to that of M ajor w ithjth< W its.-D e la Rey R egim ent in Itafi

i where he twice won the M ilitai.

A shipping m an before tlie ^ he was invited when peace cam. to take over one o f the m p W » » the liquor trade. Duty takes h i* from Cape T ow n to East A tnc and he travels a great deal.

House might

Specia l b ra n ch visit

ave beenought for

subversionW hile he was away on trip

recently, Special B ranch officer called at his house a num ber c times. Eventually they found hi at hom e and asked him what h knew about a private post offic box at Saxonw old rented byW illiam s.” .. .__

Mr. W illiams knew nothing o i n and pointed out that he had bee the tenant o f a post office box Ithe city for years. j

He and the officers inter , viewed the Saxonwold post ■ master. It was confirmed tha Mr. D. G . W illiam s s signatur ; bore no resemblance to that < the “ D. W illiam s” who rente the private box.

. Investigations may resU“ \ prosecution of the iman a leged have concealed his true identity^

T h e n o lic e s y m p a th i s e d w i tnw S L S f V . i * !nosition did give him one . smile He was advised that .

'< i - r„ oarcel awaited him at th

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anv friends at Maga.liesber„, refused to collect and open th parcel unless a detective accom

PaThed bigmparcel was opened and inside it was a consignm ent g

! Christm as cards that M r. W ilia m had ordered months before as

| donation to the Boys Club.

1 Crime Reporter

A A rthur G ° ’ d/ er i d on Gold-';, others d u n n g to e in July,

R e ich 's ” Rivou>a j u « S k i r t s '.- house on w eek

- 5 ? * — .b efore the PoUce whlch is

T he cou ntry h ’ j 0han-l about 14 shortly a fternesburg, w as ratae gr a tip .the R ivom a arrestsoff- P olice found p a p e r s jh l c h r esem bled docum ents a rrests w ereRivoma house.m ade. th e be lie f that both

This led to t- {o r allegedhouses w ereunderground activ

a s s u m e d m m e

ceived yesterday ^ R iv om a house, which hack fro m the1 house is w ell s f a m an w ho road, w as ^ ^ [ p t i o n o f one

' - T h ree d m en detained to th R ivon ia raid. h t the house!

H e pa id a a*P the house, niture w a s I t lon ger than ibut he n ever stay H e dlda fe w hours „ there at night, not appear to ae servant,

I vto told an house forJ g r k e d \ t A - house fori

^ °H e le^t the house about a week- after he moved m ^ n ce thftt he;

p o lice fo u d inns intended to i or his £,°mpa inal oWner has!T e p r s e s ^ d J h e W '

By HANK MARGOLIESM EA RLY 200 witnesses would be called by the State in the sabotage trial

of 11 men— four Whites, six Africans and one Indian— due to be re­sumed in the Pretoria Supreme Court on October 29, Dr. Percy Yutar, Deputy Attorney-General of the Transvaal and head of the prosecution team, said yesterday.

He expected the trial to last about six weeks.

A sked w hether or not he w ould dem and the death penalty, a sen­tence possible under the A ct under w hich the m en are ch arged, Dr. Y utar said he w as the prosecu ­tor. i t w as his jo b m erely to present the evidence.

It w ould be up to the court, he said, to pronounce the sen­tence.

The A c t provides penalties ranging from a m inim um of five y ea rs ’ im prisonm ent to life im prisonm ent, or death.

T h ey w ould be given tim e to consu lt their lega l counsel and cou ld call In the services o f a d oc ­tor, if required.

I understand that a fte r de­fence counsel has had tim e to study the particu lars o f the ch arges aga in st K antor, a fu rther app lication for bail will be made.D r. Y u tar filed a fiv e -p a g e in­

dictm ent against the 11 men w hen the case opened on W ed ­nesday. The 11 w ere not asked to plead and w ere rem anded to O ctober 29.

The indictm ent a lleged that the 11 w ere in volved in 222 acts o f sabotage in preparation for guerrilla w a rfare and an arm ed invasion o f the R epublic.

It a lso nam ed organ isations known as the “ N ationa l H igh C om m and,” the N ational E x ecu ­tive C om m ittee o f the N ationa l L iberation M ovem ent and U ni' k on to W e Sizw e, a lso know n as “ Spear o f the N ation .”

The a cts o f sabotage w ere alleged to have taken place be­tw een A u gu st 10, 1961, andA u gu st 5, 1963.

Those accusedThe 11 m en before the cou rt

| are Jam es K antor, a Johannes- 1 burg' attorney and law partner : o f H arold W olpe, w ho escaped from M arshall Square prison

! celis w ith A rthu r G oldreich and is presently in B rita in ; Denis G oldberg, Lionel Bernstein , Bob A lexander H epple; N elson M an­dela, W alter Sisulu, Govan M beki, R aym ond M ahloba, E lias M at-

j.soaledi, A ndrew M langeni, and .1 A hm ed M oham ed K athrada.

D uring the w eek an application j fo r bail fo r K antor was refused 4 by the Judge President, Mr. . Justice De W et, in the P retoria

Suprem e Court.In his petition K antor said his

. health had seriously deteriorated : since his detention in a confined = space, and he w as suffering from r severe m ental and em otional dis- “ turbances. He was under doc-

I tor 's treatm ent and further de­tention w ould seriously endanger his health.

PromisedK antor said he w as innocent

| o f the charges and had extracted a prom ise from his brother-in- law, H arold W olpe, that he would not take part in any illegal poli­tical activ ities when he (K an tor) took him into partnership.

Mr. H. C. N icholas, Q.C., sub­m itted fo r K antor that tile onus w as on the State to show that

i K antor w ould not stand trial.Dr. Y utar, w ho opposed the j

app lication , told I he court there w as every reason to be- . lieve that K antor would ab­scond and not stand trial.He also said K antor and the

other accused w ere now aw aiting- trial prisoners and w ou ’d be given the priv ileges o f such ac- cused.

i j They w ould be a llow ed visitors r | tw ice a w eek and to ta lk to o lh er : prisoners when they w ent out to §; the prison yard fo r exercise : j tw ice a day.

Kasrils Wanted By Security B'rancn Fdr Questioning

“ Mercury ” Crime Reporter» I ’RE chief of the Security Branch, Colonel H. J. van den Bergh, said in a telephone inter-A view from Pretoria yesterday afternoon that Ronald Kasrils, who disappeared fromDurban early in July and arrived in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday, was wanted for questioning in connection with subversive activities in South A fr i c a ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ country ^

FirstCROSSEDBORDER

M A F E K IN G .— M r Julius First, a Johannesburg accountant for w hom the police have been searching, is reported to have arrived in M beya, southern T an­ganyika.

M r First, accom panied by M r I Ronald K astrils,1 a form er m em - ' her o f the C ongress o f D em o­crat?, and Mrs Eleanor Anderson, a friend o f the F irst fam ily,

! arrived in Lobatsi from South A fr ica on O ctober 7.

They le ft Lobatsi on Sunday m orning by charter plane for M beya together w ith tw o A fri-

I cans, Mr A aron Pem ba and Mr M olefe M akaban.

A t the w eekend the South A fr i­can Police appealed for in form a­tion about the m ovem ents of Mr

1 F irst, w ho is 70 years old.He is the father o f tw o 90-dav

detainees — M rs R uth Slovo (w hose law yer husband, Mr Joe Slovo, fled from South A frica

j recently and was last reported to be in P eking) and M r Ronnie First.

Juliusreported in TanganyikaM AFEKING, W ednesday. —

Julius First, a Johannesburg accountant for whom the police aavc been searching, is reported to have arrived in Mbeya, in southern Tanganyika.'

Mr. First, accompanied by Ronald Kasrils. a banned form er member of the Congress o f Democrats, and Mrs. Eleanor Anderson, a friend o f the First family, arrived in Lobatsi from South Africa on October 7-

They left Lobatsi on Sunday morning by charter plane for Mbeva with two Africans Aaron Pemba and M olefe Makaban. They arrived, in M afeking under

a1 T eF i r T t T t h e father o f two90-day detainees—Mrs.(whose lawyer husband Jcg f ^ South Africa recently) and Ronnie

FlThe police at the time said that Tulius First was deeply invoWed with one o f the accus^ m the Rivonia sabotage trial.—Sapa.

Julius F irst, a Johannesburg accou ntant, fo r w hom the police have tyeen search ing since the R ivon ia raid. A th ird E uropean w ith them w as M rs. E leanor A nderson , a friend o f K asrils.

Col. va n den B ergh said that K asrils w as suspected o f being a m em ber o f the “ G oldreich clan ,” and th a t he w a s believed to have kn ow led ge o f sabotage com m itted in South A fr ica , in ­c lu d in g N ata l, in the p a st tw o years.

Since 1961 he had been served w ith five bann ing orders. He w as a fo rm e r N ata l secretary Of the banned C ongress o f D em ocrats, and at one tim e w as em ployed by a D urban advertis in g firm .

T O B E C H U A N A L A N DK asrils and F ir st h ad crossed

in to B echuanaland fro m South A fr ic a earlier th is m onth , said Col. van den B ergh

F irst is the fa th er o f tw o 90- d a y detainees, M rs. R u th S lovo and R onnie F irst, w h o w as released yesterday . H e is the fa th er-in -law o f Joe Slovo, the advocate w ho fled the cou n try earlier th is year and is n ow rep orted to be in P eking.

T he police allege th at F irst w as the treasu rer o f the South A fr ica n C om m unist P arty .

$ O ur D ar-es-S a laam c o r ­respondent rep orts that F irst denied, w hen he arrived in T a n ­gan yika , that he w as a C om - funist, and sa id : “ I support any m ovem ent figh tin g racia lism .”

Warrant IssuedThe police said M r Julius F irst

w as deeply involved w ith one of the accused in the R ivon ia sabo­tage trial. ,

The Special Branch announced last Saturday that a w arrant ha been issued fo r his arrest and that cop ies of a photograph hadgone out to all police airports, harbours and border losts . ,

Mr F irst w as reported to oe ihief treasurer o f the banned Communist P arty.

It is reported M r First. Mi Kastrils and Mrs Anderson arrived in Bechuanaland under the name of Wessels.

It was also reported that D r and Mrs Kenneth Abraham s left Francistown at m idnight on Saturday for Kasane, in northern Bechuanaland, by truck, from where they flew in a small char­ter plane to Mbeya.

Escape routeD r Abraham s. 26, alleged in

the Cape Town Suprem e Court that he w as kidnapped, by South A frican Police 100 m iles insideBechuanaland.

D r Abraham s w as released by the South A frican authorities, and returned to Bechuanaland.

It is believed Kasane, on the northern border, has becom e the new escape corridor from South

i A frica . T w en ty-four A frican i refugees le ft Francistow n by l truck fo r Kasane on Sunday and arrived there yesterday.

' R efugees are being ferried three at a tim e by a ligh t a ir­cra ft to E ast A f r i c a from Kasane.— (Sapa)

First_ uswanted since % Rivonia

(P^ Crim e ReporterT jo L IC E yesterday disclosed that

both Mr. Julius First, for whom a w arrant o f arrest has been issued, and h is daughte ,1 R uth Slovo, were on their wanted list after investigations following the R ivon ia raid. . ,

Evidence had also been found that M rs. S lovo ’s husband, tne Johannesburg advocate Joe Slovo, w ho has fled the country had been deeply Involved w ith the accused at the R ivon ia sabotage and subversion trial.

Police said charges would be laid against Mrs. S lovo after the end o f her 90-day detention period.,

She was detained on August 9.1 STILL IN S.A.

Police said they believed that ivTr Pirst w ho is alleged to have

financially involved w ith toe R ivon ia accused, w as still in South

n ight a rum our that heL in Bechuanaland with a n ;was seen in uecnuai

unknown w om an and tnat tne unknown undis-itw o had le ft by air m*. closed destination could n ot be confirm ed.

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Greeff “ bribeds t a rf

STATE will try to prove that ;i political organization, and not the four men who escaped from Marshall Square, offered a bribe to an 18-year-old con­

stable to help them escape, a prosecutor said in the Johannesburg Magistrate’so u r t t o d a y . ney, Mr. A. FJeischack, again asked I will also help G reeff to avoid.'oh . nnes Arnoldus G reeff will for bail. He said bail had been re-1 standing trial.

Miuei r in e ;c Johannesburg Re- fused <?n the grounds that the in- “The escapers have crossed the I S’ xn&J Court for trial on Septem- vestigation was not complete and i borders and if the organization her 23 and 24 0n a charge paving I that G reeff might not attend court ■ deemed fit to help them it would ih Ipf'd ilar^.1 < W o/oe, Arthur ! because he was facing a charge for I also help G reeff to leave theG o ten Mch, M oosa Moolla a n d ! whic" the maximum sentence was , dountry.”Abdulhai ’ Jassat to escape from j five years’ imprisonment. j Mr. LindequeMarshall Square on August 11, and — a further charge of bribery.

When Greeff appeared before Mr, p, Lindeque today, his attor-

GoldreichRDjT)

escape:'To,

wno bail

for two

__ said the courtThe prosecutor, Mr. T. B. Vor- agreed with the prosecutor.

ster, said the investigation was \ seems that there are organiza-1 not quite com plete and other lions which have vast amounts of grounds for opposing bail were the I m onev and there is likely to be likelihood that G reeff would not ! a .strong organization willing to attend trial and that he would | G reeff.” interfere with witnesses.

STATE’S CLAIMBribery was a com m on law o f­

fence and o f an equally serious nature as the charge o f helping prisoners to escape.

Mr. Vorster said: “ The State will try to prove that not the es­capers in this case but a politi­cal organization was "esponsibie for the bribe. The amount was considerable and because the or­ganization was prepared, to pay such an am ount it follows that it

GREEFF IS

S ta ll R eporterA COUPLE charged with con -

cealing Arthur G oldreich and H arold W olp e a fte r their escape fro m M arshall Square on A u gu st 11 w ere yesterday refused bail b y M r. S. G. B os­nian In the Johannesburg M agistrate’s Court.

The couple are Leon M ichael K reel and his w ife M aureen,T erra ce R oad, M ountain V iew ,Johannesburg.

MOTHER OF 2D r. P ercy Yutar, the D eputy

A ttorney-G eneral o f the T rans­vaal, who opposed the bail, said that he w ould discuss bail fo r M aureen K reel w hen the cou rt sat on O ctober 30. He would discuss a concession, if on ly fro m a com passionate poin t o f view , and n ot fro m a legal aspect.

Mr. G . Levenson, for the Kreels. said that the K reels had tw o children aged three years and 11 m onths. O ne child had an a llergy w hich needed special attention.

He .said both pleaded not guilty.They had had every chance to flee the country

He said that under the Prisons A ct detainees were n ot classed as prisoners, and therefore any-, body who harboured a detainee was not guilty o f harbouring an escaped prisoner. “ The State cannot have its cake and eat it,” he said.

MATS l OU\ D j Fingerprints of the two people had Dr. Yutar said that a person de-| been found at the K reel hom e

tained In prison, whether c o n - ’ ’F ingerprints do not lie ” said victed or not, was a prisoner. He Dr. Yutar. He also mentioned said it was doubly serious when the finding o f maps detailing the prisoners, G oldreich and escape routes across the bordex W olpe, had been nam ed as con- to the Protectorates spirators in the R ivonia trial.

REFUSED% b a ilCourt Reporter

'J 'H E young police constable, Johannes G reeff, who is alleged

to have helped G oldreich, W olpe, M oola and Jassat to escape from M arshall Square, was yesterday refused bail when he again ap­peared in the Johannesburg M agistrate’s Court.

In opposing bail M r. T . B. Vorster told M r. p . Lindeque that the State would allege that a pow erful political organisation had offered G ree ff a bribe fo r his part in the escape. I t follow ed that they m ight help G reeff to avoid standing trial.

R efusing bail M r. Lindeque agreed that a strong organisation m ight be willing to help G reeff.

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of JuristsSUNDAY TIMES POLITICAL REPORTER

T H E M inister o f Justice , M r. V orster , last n igh *■ attacked the In tern ation al S ociety o f J « r , _

because o f a fo rm a l a p p lica tion to *m •„ h ee r v ,r , » b e a llow ed ' •»“ r " , ," r ,asabotage trial.

Speaking in the Alberton Town Hail, the Minister said that the formal application of

! the society was “ a calculated insult to*/the South African , courts and South Africa’s legal |system.”

" T he whole world knows that anybody w ho has the tim e has the right to walk Into any South A frican court and listen to the proceedings.”

Mr. Vorster said that the legal system in South A frica could be com pared with the best in the, world. “ W e have a com pletely in -j

| dependent B ench, which is never j j subjected to any kind of G overn-1 m ent interference. The courts in v

I South A frica are com pletely ln-- i dependent. It is an independent Bench that is the guarantee of dem ocracy.” ,

Commenting on the letter he I

S.A. situation dangerous, says

Irish juristi V

V From Our CorrespondentDublin, Monday.

1 \ w SfXRETABY-GKNERAL of the Intern,■•o.tnl A Commission of Jnri,... S9w..n»ld Mr. :ee.n M«br,<le uliowe father raised the Irish Brigade which I ought on he r l of tlu Boers in the South African War regards ti e present situation in South Africa as the most dangerous ...I lie w o r ld . African W ar he Immediately

Before leaving J ot Geneva this , ^ ® dhi‘ hce0^ “ |ndBfought against jThe j the British. When the war endedhad received from the In ter- j I ^ ^ J j d " t o " take up his

national Society of Jurists, the, intment he told m e: •• -rne ; j* « naid a warm IM inister said: developments in South Africa are g G J jg ® * K heg bri£ade-s efforts.

My answer is that the courts ; bQund tQ have repercUssions not , “ joute amnestv M ajor M a c-1o f South A frica are open o merely within the Republic but g returned t o ' i reiand, where

throughout the whole o f the ^ played a leading part in the)J African continent. | movement j or Irish national mde- j| Former journalist, Mr. Macbride, | pendence leading to the 1916 rising, j is a member o f the Ghana -.ar

; and his practice has included many j C H A IR M A NI matters in the African contiimnt. I M r M acbride is chairm an of the j 1 Even before the Second W oi Id W ar , Association of Jurists, a n d 1he was acting as correspondent « *ak- over tbe Geneva position

j fo r South African newspapers. for a three-year period succeeds „ __ Gir Tocije Monro. He was also

FATHER EXECUTED recently elected chairman o f the]. . His fam ily had long connections executive o f Amnesty International

th ^ 't re ls o n t r ia fa representative H ^ South Africa. His father, and is leader of Clan na P oblachta .;of the society was present, but this present application was the

anybody who would tike to attend, including the Interna­tional Society o f Jurists.“ The idea behind this applica­

tion is that the accused in this trial will not get a fair hearing, and this society feels that it is necessary to ensure that they do in fa ct get a fair hearing."

“ Better employed"

first that had been made."I f they w ant to ensure that

justice is being done I can m en­tion m any countries where the activities o f their observers m ight be better em ployed.”

It was true that he had been given powers by Parliam ent that no other M inister o f Justice had, been accorded, "but 1 challenge anyone to quote a single ex­ample o f the abuse of these powers.“ I ask anybody to quote m e one

— unr u tn u Tigrns-ana p r ­ivileges of the ordinary citizen have been affected by these powers. The principle at stake is the freedom of the individual and the safety of the State itself.

“ What is the value of the freedom of the individual if the State itself is destroyed?”The present powers had affected

Only Com m unists and fellow - travellers who were anxious to carry out subversive activities against this country. _ l - ‘

“ I told South A frica I would draw aside the iron curtain ' and deal, with the men behind w ho were pulling the strings. About 900 c f these people have left _ the country and will never return.”

The tw o language groups had been drawn closer. If the day ever cam e when South A frica was attacked they would find the E ng­lish and the Afrikaner standing

i together united as never befoje-

i w it h S o u t h A i r i c a . i a n a ^ -----— - * . • , . iMai. John Maobride, executed for the Republican Party he founded his part in the 1916 Irish Rebel- jn 1936. ilion, emigrated to South Africa Mr. Macbride would not c o m - , when he was still a young man and m ent at length on the boutn became a naturalized citizen of African situation, but he numbers the Transvaal. personal friends among the G o -

I o n the outbreak of the South em inent including Mr. Eric Louw.

sayJurists i r w c c ^no aiiront

intendedGENEVA, Wednesday. — The

International Commission of Jurists sees no basis for the “ violent reactions of the South : African Minister o f Justice to its j request for permission to send an , observer to South Africa's forth- j ■ coming sabotage trial. j <

The Minister, Mr. Vorster, re- ! ■ plied to the request by saying j any observer from the com mis- , sion would get neither official . recognition nor, special faci.ities. > He said the commission's request I implied that the trial would notbe a fair one. . ,

The commission s statement vesterday said no special facilities had been requested for the ob­server and no affront to the South African judiciary could be reason­ably inferred from the request.Sapa-Associated Press

P n l i s i e w e e t h v t v i l l a n d v e r l a a T

Dr. Festenstein se aansoek JL om borgtog verwerp■N AAN SO EK OM BORGTOG vir dr H M a r c ^ S S ^ o o p

A Rivonia-klopjag aangekeer is, 0P ^ n d ,daa" ^ stcr in die Johannesburgse baan emstig skade aandoen om opgesluit te bly, is gister mlanddroshof verwerp.

Landdros H . S. B osm an bet opgem erk dat enigeen vyat in die tronk is ongelukkig 'skade ly.

Festenstein, ’n 33-jarige m e- diese d oktor van H ighbury-ge- bou, B ellevue, verskyn op aan- klag dat hy K om m unism e be- vorder het en dat hy verbod e li- teratuur in sy besit gehad het.

M nr. I. M organ, w at Festen­stein verdedig,-het aangevoer dat die e intlike verhoor eers in De-

n o r c o l Vtnrrin 4-

vrou het reeds die land v e r la a t A s hv eers uit die land is, daar geen m oontlikheid van uit- lew ering nie. En dit is ba ie m a - lik om die land te verlaat. W at sal voork om dat hy padgee.

M nr. M organ: „H y is_w elb e - kend in m ediese kringe.

Landdros: „ Is hy m eer w el- bekend as G oldreich W olpe, Sisulu, M andela en K antor.

Mnr. M organ : „S y om standig- hede is heeltem al verskillend

___-. A i q annprp. U1Soie e intlike verhoor eers in De-sem ber sal begin terw yl die be- he^e van * d ie andere* Disskuldigde reeds sedert 11 Ju lie | ^ an, X e n h ier is.”aangehou w ord. H y het geen ge- ho^ ° j ddros het d ie a newe om sy m ediese studies D le lanaciros “ . u . . .um 2>y m e------____ ______voort te sit n ie o f om seifs net tred te hou m et verw ikkelinge nie. Sy kanse om toekom stige w erk w ord dus u iterm atig be- lem m er, het mnr. M organ ge§e.

WELBEKENDM nr. M organ het voorgestel

dat die landdros ’n borgtog- hedrag bepaal w at sal verseker dat Festenstein b y sy verh oor opdaag.

Landdros: „D ie beskuld igde se

lekom nv aneen D ie landdros het d ie aansoek

verw erp nadat aanklaer N. van der R oyden die hof se aan- dag gevestig het op argum ente teen borg w at voorheen geopper is. D aar is voorheen Senoem dat Festenstein by die G °ld re ich - w oning aangekeer is, onderw yl die polisie m et ’n k lop jag besig w as na die ander arrestasies.

V erder het d ie polisie ook m - ligting dat Festenstein van plan is om die land te verlaat, hoe- w el dit n ie n oodw endig beteken

dat hy w il „v lu g ” nie. fntussen is die toestand van Suid-Afnkase u itlew eringsooreenkom ste m etander lande sodanig d a t d it „on - w aarskynlik indien n ie onm oont-lik ” is n ie om politiek e oor treders oorhandig te kry.

Festenstein w ord in ’n be- edigde getuigskrif besk ry f as n n avorser w a t aansien like oor- spronklikheid aan d ie dag le en reeds n uw e bydraes op die gebied van w eefselgroei en im m unologie.

D ie verh oor is uitgestel.

^ f e s t e n s t e i n

%}n courtT\r i ^ , °un ReP°rter

w kT LLIARD FESTENSTEIN,Rivonia raw arrested durin« theH s t w aid’ aPPeared before Mr. Maei<itroStrn.an in tbe Johannesburg c h a r l i tei Court yesterday on a

1 6V!dp,nce was led and Festen- c ia ’ held dnder the 90-day

j 22 US6, was rem anded to October

It is expected that the case Festenstein will proceed

ithout further rem ands on his next appearance.

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R emandedthe r 'sm.1tharo Fastenstein, head of thp **and Laboratories ofwas ° f Medical Research,appeared ir,reT nded when he Ma^istruto'111 the Johannesburg Magistrates Court todaytheeR e" f ein- who was arrested inrefch s h a rald on Arthur Gold,reicns home on Jmv n is>f c ”ommWltn furtbering the aims

and with being i n , u e .,, n of banned publications.:

lav M e n r®manded to next Satur-1 H S Bosnian appeared before M r-

Festenstein ^refused

bail" Court Reporter

T A R .^ IL L IA R D f e s t e n s t e i n , t ' w ho was arrested during the R ivonia raid, was yesterday re­fused bail when he again appeared before Mr. H. S. Bosm an in the Johannesburg M agistrate s Court on a charge o f furthering the aims o f com m unism , alternatively being in possession of banned h teratu rej

M r J. van der Reyden, for the c i d p asked for a rem and to O c­tober’ 26 as a date for a Regional Court hearing would be available

j ^Refusing bail Mr. Bosman said the State had revealed that Fes tenstein's wife had left the country

i and he had told the police that he intended joining her in London.

The defence had also failed to I show that Festenstein had any [intention of standing trial.

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y

Festenstein is again

demanded

BAILRefused□L^Hiffiiu-d Festenstein, head of

the South Rand laboratories of the Institute of Medical Research, was refused bail and remanded until Saturday. October 26, when he again appeared before a Johannes­burg magistrate today.

Festenstein, arrested in the Rivonia raid on July 11, is charged with furthering the aims of Com ­munism and with being in posses­sion of banned publications.

STUDY HAMPEREDOn Saturday he' will be re­

manded to appear in the Regional Court on a date still to be fixed.

His attorney, Mr. I. Morgan, re- i newed an application tor bail.

Mr. Morgan said Festenstein was seriously hampered because h e ; had no facilities to continue hisi

; studies in a specialized direction | while he was in jail.! T he magistrate, Mr. H. S. Bos-

m a n : Is this relevant at all in ■ I relation to the question of whether ;

he will stand his trial?He refused bail, saying that no

new grounds had been given for a reversal o f a previous decision.

Mr. N. D. van der Reyden ap­peared for the State.

I festenstein fasks for a 1 ?new cell

Sunday Express Reporter t a r H ILLIA R D FESTENSTEIN, * ' who was arrested during the Rivonia raid, was remanded to December 11 when he appeared before Mr. H. S. Bosman M Johannesburg Magistrate s C o u vesterday on a charge of furthei - the aims of Communism,

Dr. Hilliard Festenstein, who

o n j X v U . « » - B - S - Swhen he appeared b®p^ nt!sburg S. Bosman in the J o »anuc Magistrate’s Court today.

Festenstein, head PLf'jnstituta

Of banned literature. _omherHe was remanded to DeC the

U when he w ill. appear ^ Johannesburg R e g i o n a l C o ^

inc tne aims ^ ------------ t 'alternatively being in possession of banned literature.

Festenstein asked if he could be moved to another cell in the , magistrate’s court. He said ] prisoners with whom he V - sharing a cell were dagga, spitting on the flooi* an misbehaving. iiMr. Bosman said he wou’^ ^ d

order that Festenstein *» ™ tald to another cell, because I COurt I be taken away from* tB* t soon after the remand. ■**

BERNSTEIN OF EXIT PERMIT”K -

“Rivonia” man says he is prepared

to face trialBy a Staff Reporter

L IONEL BERNSTEIN, one of the Rivonia ” men who face trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on Tuesday on

charges of sabotage, said in a bail application in the same court today that lie refused police offers of an exit permit if he would incriminate others. In 1956 the Minister told Par-

He said that despite all his op- liament that about 200 people portunities and in the face o f advice j would soon be arrested and to leave the country since 1949 he charged with high treason. Bern- had consistently refused to do so. j stein says he had reason to believe

I f he was now admitted to bail, i he would be one o f the 200, but he said, he would face trial and ! again he did not leave the coun-vindicate himself. I try.

He said he was probably the first South African to be refused a pass­port on political grounds. This was in 1949, when he was offered a three-year appointment as an archi­tect in Kenya.

He further believed that of the 20 people in the Transvaal placed under house arrest last year he and one other person were the only ones who had not fled the country.

h e a r in g p o s t p o n e d

The hearing o f Bernstein’s appli­cation was postponed to Tuesday.T he Attorney-General — the re­spondent—was ordered by Mr. Justice Cillie to file replying affidavits by Saturday and re- Quested to make arrangements for Bernstein to be interviewed in Pre­toria jali by his legal representatives on Saturday afternoon.

Bernstein says in his affidavit that after he was interviewed by security police in 1949 and re­fused a passport, he took opinion.

He was arrested in December, 1956, and granted bail o f R400. After a lengthy preparatory exami­nation h° committed withothers for trial.

Eventually. •* May, 1961, the first group of the treason trialists was acquitted. Despite being sub­ject to the danger o f being con­victed of treason for more than four years, he had not attempted to leave the country.

In April, 1960, regulations pro­viding for the detention o f people without trial were published. Bernstein says he and his wife believed it most likely they would be detained but instead o f leaving South Africa they decided to face the prospect o f detention.

M ore stringent orders under the Suppression o f Communism Act followed. In October last year he was served with a 12-hour house arrest order.

Early this year the Minister of Justice m entioned Bernstein by

' * “ " 1 1 . j name in Parliam ent as “ the sort jHe advised he could leave 1 o f person with whom the Govei n-

oouth Africa without a passport, j ment had to contend ” while mtro- “ e did not do so because he j ducing legislation empowering the j

“ whether he and his | police to detain people for periods ttfnily ^would be entitled to re- - -- - - igsgf j

, permitted to consult any legal adviser

! During this time, he says, he j | was interviewed by the police.

REFUSED PERM IT! “ I was asked by Lieutenant I Swanepoel and W arrant O fficer 1 van Zyl to supply inform ation to incriminate other persons. T o this end, the inducement o f an exit permit enabling me to leave the

j country was held out. I refused to | ask for any such permit.”

Bernstein says he realizes the charges against him are serious, but no more serious than those brought against him in 1956.

He says he will plead not guilty.“ My legal representatives have

not yet been furnished with the further particulars to the indict­ment and I therefore do not know what part I am supposed to have taken in the alleged conspiracies 1 declare I am prepared to face trial and vindicate m yself.”

Mr. A. Fischer. Q.C.. with him Mr. G Biros (instructed by Mr. Joel Jolte) appeared for Bernstein. ____________ _

legal

enter South Africa.muivkm l,he Suppression o f Com- he Act was passed in 1950ounnrh n? t avail himself o f the t o r rpfl^>lty o f Siving the Liquida- inciuriprt°n Wby he should not beCommunists. the list ° f aUeged

he Em itted he had nist Pn-.member of the Commu- inTolve He knevl listing would abiuHee k™ in a number of dis- his memberstopCh0Se “ ** t0 ^orrievc1?.04 ,**e was served with DrohiHus tlle Minister of Justice s a ? w mg him from attending to t ! l lngS and ordering him not certn^® Part in the activities of h» a -j awful organizations Again,ne did not , ____

o f 90 days for interrogation “ CLEAR INDICATION”

“ There co u ld ' have been no clearer indication that I would be dealt with as soon as the pro­posed legislation was passed. Cer­tain friends and relations advised me to make arrangements to leave South A frica as it appeared that what was called 90-day detention could in fact be detention for an indefinite period, or as expressed by the Minister, until ‘this side of eternity’ .

“ Although I was apprehensive that I m ignt at any stage be de­tained for an indefinite period it I remained in South Africa r continueo to report to the ponce

he 'sIa lawrul organizations. Again, daily until 1 was arrested.A f_ ,„ a i?ot choose to leave South w „ a ,-rpsted on July U at on d®sPi,te tha further limits th home 0l Arthur Goldreich. For speech ugilts of association and gg days he was detained without

being charged and without being

_ -5 -*• -■ /» ■■saLl ieSpectators w arn ed a t start

of R ivon ia tr ia lThe Star's Pretoria Bureau _

T h e “ RIVOMA T R IA L ’’- t h e trial of the <1 men andState alleges plotted sabotage as part of a plan or *ej “dictment* j t js ex-

of the country-—started today with applications to , before the Judge-peeled ilial legal argument on the a,.pliealmne w.il lake two day. before the Jn gPresident, Mr. Jitstiee de Wet, in the Pretoria Supreme Omit.

The court was ].acked with people who listened in altetlU''^e“ L'ectatore lengthy gurnet,.. There was only one threatened tUturlnu.cn when spectatowere warned at the tea interval not to shout slogans.

As— the men entered the dock from the cells below at the -start o f the trial each in turn—except Kantor and Hepple—turned to the public gallerv and gave a salute by raising his hand.

Each was greeted by cries of “ Amandin, Ngawethu " (Strength is Ours i.

When this was repeated as I interval, a police officer said that | anybody shouting in court would be removed.

The men before the court are: Nelson Mandela Walter Sisulu, Dennis Goldberg. Govan Mbeki. Ahmeu Mohamed Kathrada. Lionel Bernstein, Raym ond Mahlaba •these are the alleged National High Com m and!, James K antor,, Eifas Matsoaledi Andrew Mlangeni and Bob Alexander Hepple. All except Hepple are represented by counsel.

H igh com marul

^ e tw ° organizations are th e; gai lira, of James Kantor and

partners, and the National High Nat?mai?d ' alsV known as the

ua liberation Movement.. „ f ,tlhe Omkonto Wr Sizwe • SpearOf t h e N a t,cv , ,

Recorded byS.A.B.C.The Star’s Pretoria Bureau

T1 OR the first time, as far I ' as is known, the S.A.B.C.

today installed microphones in a courtroom and made a recording o f a trial.

It is understood that ex­cerpts from the Rivonia trial

i Wi(i be edited and broadcast.

was in Jail,” Mr. Fischer said.He then referred to what he

called “ the extreme paucity o f the inform ation given about the con­spiracy.”

He asked that the accused be given inform ation about the man- nei in which the conspiracy was formed. They must also be told the time, place and manner in which each accused was a member of *he conspiracy.

Again Mandela could not have been a member o f the conspiracy all the time, Mr. Fischer submit­ted

1 He then quoted the ruling given j by three judges at the treason

trial, in which the Indictment was ' quashed, and how the defence I had again asked for further par­ticulars.

He submitted there were certain different parallels with the ruling

the Nation).the doclt in the court is too

to take all the accused a pecial panelled dock had been

ti 1 i nd stretched almost across tne whole of the historic court.

In his application to quash the indictment, Mr. A. Fischer, whos a i d ^ S Hr T ? n ° f Ule accdsed' : gixerTin th ed reason T ria l"in this saia that the defence, in applying ® * e

particulars to the j A ftcr quo, ing from cases about . ’ ..llad met a list o f blank formation o f conspiracies, Mr.

I Fischer said th a t. either the State 1 ! had not learnt from these cases, | I or had not the facts to place be- I lore the court.

I said, it is essential fo r K antor to j know what he is supposed to have

I The indictment ana u * iart^ ’ narticulars do not inform him ’what he is supposed t o have

iT h e indictment only lollow s the j I wording of the Act and contains

nniv the barest o f facts.Dr Lowen said the State had

admitted that neither K antor nor W olpe had actually taken part m anv of the 199 acts o f sabotage

1 They were, however, accused i o f conspiring with the others to com m it the acts, and inciting other j people to com m it these acts.

Truth drugD r Lowen continued, tthh

vigorous gestures, “ K antor is held ! nlafe o f W olpe, who is nothere He U heW for anything that W o lp e has done. T hat is w h y the defence wants details o f Kantor has done and anything

WKantor,S D r e ;Lowen continued, has offered to subm it him self for examination under trum J w O g has sworn that he does not know am'thing about the charges.^ He0 contends that he is com- pletely innocent, that he does not

had gdne through K antor s firm .

refusals” from the State He contended that the State

'fad replied in effect that parti- 3 s applied for were either w h. ®ts of evidence, or matters '

of th eIccu sS Wn lhe knowledge | Silent

D e f e c t i v e

PieadmgU ! S 0n vvi11 be that ,the a c o n s t - f i r 1 , ' le accused acted as Mr .defective,”

• ta ^ e8adiiit.h^ ° ^ nt one^ 0r m‘ visions ofd tin0t com P1-v with p e ­culated m the 00(16 and was cal'

1 the U ° P? ludic6 and embarrasstheir Hof*Sed ln ,lle conduct ofset torf,’61!?,6’ in Hiat 11 does not tk .,, 0 ( 1 Hie offence with which n ' dave been charged in a man- of th „ thtorm them of the nature 01 the charge.

I p ‘seher gave examples ofi said1, 6 termed contradictions. He i a . that Mandela had been I on August 5, 1962, yet the

naictm ent covered the wholeperiod he was in jail except for six weeks.

Impossible“ It is quite impossible for Man­

dela to say how he was respon­sible for acts committed while he

! Using Mandela as an argument i ! again, he said that 156 of the 199 ;I acts of violence were committed i while Mandela was in jail.

W hen the court adjourned for |: the tea interval the Africans in the j gallery again shouted "Am andhla’ ,| as the accused left the dock. !

They were warned by Maj. Fred j ! van Niekerk, of the Pretoria C.I.D.. i

that if they shouted again they j would be evicted.

They were silent when the court re-convened.

Dr. George Lowen, Q.C.. who ts appearing for Kantor, was then

given an opportunity to argue for the quashing of the indictment as far as Kantor was concerned.

Dr. Lowen is engaged in another icase and Mr. Fischer will finish ] his argument later.

Dr. Lowen said that not enough Particulars had been given tor Kantor to be able to prepare his defence.

Kantor is liable for anything his : Partner Harold W olpe might have done, and therefore, Dr. L o w e n

Dashes

“ S e r paruculars areu S . evasive and stereotyped,

i Dr.-Takr?W salas an example T o this question tuumber gn-e

° « d gT l n ^ P V there

arDrfOULowaem eSN o matter howm any dashes, the answer is the

SaT he judge remarked that he

b u r n e d to be innocent until

P1Thed judge adjourned the case until tom orrow because he still

i had to hear bail applications ioi| K antor and Bernstein.can tor a AWorney-Generai.! o r. P- V“tac. D aude. Senior Public ; with him Mr. J. >■ 1 • aruj Mr. T .°, Prosecutor of Pjei j thc senior PuhI Voreter. ot the olfwe tnppwred for t[ Prosecutor. Johannesburg. uu1 Stale. n C tvith Him Mr- • ,Mr. A- FPf-heIX Q 'chaskclson (instruct.) Biros and Mr. a . j- , by Mr. Joel lode) aP «Sisulu. Goldberg. Mbeki

" a Mr \ ChaSkelSOn t i n s ; . . - , , in i L . L f f e ) ' appeared for M andella. . . . Joel Jo tlet a v t jp - Kathrada Bern-

• '• ^ “ h^MatJSedl and Mlanssenl. stein. Mahlaba. Matso^i ^ hjm Mr H.,-i (• wild mm iv«‘ - * —C P r ' G kunv (instruoted bySchwarz and Mr. L>.of Benjami[) Joseph Mr. lad; Cooper a0Peared for KantorS T fa t ^ f % s s £ ^ Hcpplcwas not rcprcs«nitcu

SLOGANS SHOLTE_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Z C r f C o ^ u ^ r f H v

MEN IN DOCKA

Police disperse ^ crowds

POLICE WERE POSTED at all of the eight streets leading into Church Square, Pretoria, today, at the start the !

trial.But there were no incidents

outside the Palace o f Justice by noon as a crowd, mostly of non- Whites, began to grow and col­lect on the pavement opposite the court building.

Before the start o f the proceed­ings police officers dispersed the small crowd which had begun to gather. There were many Special Branch men all round the build­ing and the precincts of the court. Som e were taking names.

As the crow d grew, people were allowed to gather on the pave­ments and the lawns. One patrol van stood by and a squad o f uniformed police kept the crowd from going over into the building after the public gallery had been filled. One Saracen drove past.

There were a few Africans • in tribal dress. Some wore the green and black "C on g ress ’- uni­form s and there were Indian women in saris. Some wore “ Mandela ” and “ Am andla ” lapel badges.

The court was packed well before the start o f the pro­ceedings.

OBSERVERSAmong the observers in the

court were diplomatic representa­tives from several countries. Mr. R. W. R ein.Q .C ., Attorney-General o f the Transvaal, also sat in court.

Another observer was a British Labour Party M.P., Mr. John Men- delson.

He said he is here on a visit to assess the econom ic interests o f j the three Protectorates. “But in

! view o f the international impor- ' tance o f this trial, I have delayed ; my departure for Basutoland in order to attend the first session,” he said.

In one com er were the machines o f the S.A.B.C., and two men who

{ are recording the trial for possible i broadcast.

CHARGES REDUCED %FROM 222 TO 199' I ’ HE I\DK71 MEN r served on tlie accused in the “ Rivonia A trial ’ charges them with sabotage and with contravening

the Suppression of Communis Amendment Act.

It alleges they conspired to com m it 199 acts of sabotage in preparation for guerilla warfare and armed invasion.

The men will not be asked to plead until the applications to quash have been disposed of.

The further particulars to the indictment supplied by the State today reduce the original number o f alleged acts o f sabotage from 222 to 199. They include: the blowing up o f the office o f the Minister o f Agricultural Economics and Marketing in “ V ” Building. Hamilton Street, Pretoria, on October 19, 1962.

The blowing up o f the office o f the “ Nataller ’’ in Durban on January 18, 1963. A White passer­by was injured.

PETROL BOMBSThe death oi an African cons­

table in Langa, Cape Town, on M arch 10, 1963, when a police vehicle was set alight by petrol bom bs:

The blowing up at a sub-power station on a railway bridge at Braamfontein on October 15. 1962. Repairs cost R40.966;

The destruction by fire o f two classrooms o f the Vasco High

•m Act and the General Law-School, Cape Town, on November 27, 1962. Repairs cost R20.000:

The wounding o f three Africans j in a beerhali in Bell Street, Dur- 1 ban, on February 2, 1963, by a bomb; and injury o f two African girls in Durban Village, East London, on December 15, 1962, when a bomb was thrown through their bedroom window

Many of the other sabotage acts were against railway lines, power pylons and telephone lines. The majority were of small bombs thrown through windows o f police and municipal offices.

EXPLOSIVESThe further particulars also

detail the amounts of explosives the men are alleged to have pos­sessed. apart from those used in the various alleged saootage acts.

They are 1.662ft. of fuse. 273 | sticks o f dynamite, 448 sticks of gelignite. 73 percussion caps. 60ft.

! o f “ cordtex,” three railway detona- j tors, a quantity o f potassium chlorate, 23 chemical bombs, a quantity of gun powder, a quan­tity of aluminium powder, three revolvers, three battle axes and

j two pangas.j Also detailed were sums o f i money alleged to have passed ! through the books o f James | Kantor and Partners on behalf o f I various people— Vivian Ezra, J.| First, P. J. Hodgson and Sisulu I are named — and in various I amounts ranging up to R7502 for i j disbursements for the Rivonia j ' farm Lilliesleaf. R 10.000 to Defence ! j and Aid Fund, R6000 to V. Ezra ■ | and R14.000 to J. First.

Contempt by newspaper

^ allegedone of the accused w the L

| trial In Pretoria, for f 1u° pdnor I of court order against tlie

and publishers of Jp1® , tus- , land " was postponed by Mr.1 tice Steyn today.

The respondents, Mr. A_M - v Schoor and Afrikaanse P « i ru

\ blikasie Edms. Bpk. are to UM \ replying affidavits within a weeK- 1 It is alleged in Mbeki’s pen- 1 tion that statements which aP I peered in "D ie V a d e r l a n d on

three occasions " prejudge »

a contem pt of couit.

Probe into ^complainti by Yutar

Pretoria Reporteri N allegation was made in tneA P retoriaS u prem eC ourtyester-

d3y l i av ,P ^ D r 'G ’ L o w e n Q c a " df f i f S s S . . r l >«r

s - s ,

police. T he officer was PtePared “ enter the witness box and swear that this was so.

A reflection He said that M r. K uny’s remark

whs a serious reflection on him iDr Y utar), his colleagues and[he police. He demanded an im m e­diate apology as this was

gra n ted £ V p o r | W to rep*

heard o f the m atter Hei denied that he had m ade the remain..

T he judge said the allegation had been made, Mr. K uny had denied it and the m atter would > have to be investigated.__________

Qbjedfan\%. comment i

. ^r.«»o com m ents w as tlSunday E xpress R eporter

I i K . P E R C Y Y U T A R , head o I ) the prosecu ting team in the

i » v .held discussions ®0.n,:er" ’ "^ . py ferenoes to the trial m ade by the S .A .B .C . announcer, Mr. Cecil W ightm an.

t learned this yesterday— and it was subsequently confirmed by

Fischer to appear on their bSErfcy*have sa id ., - Ilhl-

I see they’ve done a dm.beM.irraytieUl oH Us at U .No gtopto one. They waui 0 liteour ^ b o t a g e tru a s .h o Q m tt

n s V .m t s tick s \>f dynam ite peop le put s tick s . tunder railway lines . It * I"harm less f un- w l „ ht-

; M r. Joffe ’ s reaction to M r. W igh

D “ eK t L “ “ r I m L T S ’ S ' t h a the had been approached y members of the defence team hut said he was not prepared tn disclose what had trans-

K f w y c » n » 0 ™ « . r --However, T( . can .t e L y w ig h t -

“ ■S, S r d o " n r t . . l . u n * r

Mar -com plaint^w ith the head o f

ther S ' w B Rein, A ttorn ey-G en - M era^ of the Transvaal, told m e

hP was not concerned with what was s l id over the radio by any

T lT anT 'ease, you know th at M r.Wightman is a bit o f a leg

sou M a n d e l a , W a l t e r S i s n l u , D e n i , Goldberg, Goran M beU, A h m e d M o h a m e d K a t h > a a u a n d L i o n e l B e . n s t e i n .

u

Nie-blankes by hof

w teen duim-teken

en kreet gewaarsku

w ord . Hulle het aangevoer dat d ie aanklagte vaag is, en d it v ir d ie beskuldigdes onm oontlik m aak om hul verdedig in g voor te berei.

D ie beredenering is om 3 nm. onderbreek toe regterpresident Q. d e W et die saak tot vandag verdaag het om eers d ie borg- aansoeke van Jam es K antor en L ionel Bernstein aan te hoor.

U itspraak in K antor se borg- aansoek is voorbehou en Bern­stein se aansoek is tot later verdaag om die Staat se berede­nering te hoor.

(V erloop van hofsaak en ’n fo to op bl. 3 ).

N W fA A R S K U W IN G dat enigeen wat weer die duim- ™ in-die-vuis-teken, vergesel van die kreet

„Ajnaiidla wethu” (Ons krag) gee, uit die hof verwyder sal word, is gister met die teepouse deur majoor Fred van Niekerk by die Rivoniaverhoor in Pretoria aan die sowat honderd nie-blanke toeskouers gerig

Toe die elf beskuldigdes die 98gend hul plekke ingeneem het ln die nuwe lang beskuldigde- bank wat beskikbaar gestel is,

• ,Yerskeie van hulle na die nie-blanke toeskouers gedraai en die teken gegee. Dit is deur die toeskouers met uitroepe begroet.

Die prosedure is met die ver- daging vir tee herhaal, waarna ya j- Van Niekerk sy waar- skuwmg gerig het. Daarna het dit nie weer voorgekom nie, ook

onder die beskuldigdes nie.

Geen voorvalleOndanks die verskyning van

^ijette wat in Johannesburg en fTetoria versprei is en waarin ’n oeroep gedoen is dat die verhoor ,,^°®woon moet word — wat die ’n uI1?ede laat ontstaan het dat wac j glng georganiseer word — wat geen voorvalle nie. So-daaff 200 nie"blankes het opge- wpiS’’r,maarxhulle stil gedra> hoe- aan ?, gr° ot g.r°ep weens gebrek die KoUf‘mt,e . nie toegelaat is om bofsaal binne te gaan nie.ga?nen fl°v ?twat nie kon binne-sypaadjie ^ a n ^ K ' I 3® ° P diedie hof gewag. Kerkplein voor

s o v ™ a ds g e s t iek die S A 'U -K - die ee rstl k l 1 k.an word’ gister hofverrietin» Cr n °Pname van nodiee In ” ge gemaak toe die van '"die Ppa!Taat voor die begin Gereriitm S jak aangebring is. ’n - -w a it de Weergawe sal na

agting uitgesaai word.drJ p l ie beJ in van die saak het s t a a t ! ! y ,Yutar’ leier van die die aanlV° kate,’ aanSekondig dat waarfnnh9 ? l Sei J0t die klagstaat, uiteencr “ H- dade van sabotsie ’n nmleSlt 1S’ Yervan§ word deur ■Word We waarin 199 uiteengesit

Veertij folio’stotH die€ klael a rad,ere aanhangsel beslaan v ^ l t i l f i r “ gedien- Dit

ieiers van di aatnsoeke deur die vokate wat n lr t l^ ® groePe ad- digdes vlrtelnty Van.diebeskul- kiagstaat n ?ltiWOOrdlg’ dat die ------- aat nie tie verklaar moet

1 Mr- J- Mendelson, British Labour M.P., leaving the

Palace of Justice after listen­ing to the trial. With him, wearing glasses, is a first sec­retary of the British Embassy •n Pretoria, Mr. J. Longrigg, ,

9 Mr- Alex Hepple, a former * M.P. and father

the prisoners, butto jacket as he leaves t' at the lunch adjournme

9 Mrs. Sisulu and Mrs. Mia, geni, wives of two of the

accused. enter the court.

^ Mrs. Bernstein, wife of Lionel Bernstein, dons dark

glasses as she leaves for the lunch adjournment.

fjj Dr. George Lowen, Q.C., Kantor’s counsel, arrives to

Plead Kantor’s application to have the indictment quashed.

0 Mrs. Barbara Kantor waits outside the court building

for friends before the start of the hearing.

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